In today’s era of Big Data, government and educational data are valuable public assets. Good data stewardship means not only collecting and protecting data, but also maximizing its utility as a public ...

In the flurry of executive orders and policy directives from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE team, several sources of government data have disappeared — especially those related to race ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics remains without a permanent leader. President Donald Trump fired commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Aug. 1, and claimed that the monthly jobs numbers were “rigged” to make ...

Recent moves to disband advisory committees that suggested ways to improve economic data — as well as comments from Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick — have raised concerns about the reliability of ...

When San Francisco launched its first open data portal more than a decade ago, it marked itself as a leader in the space. That portal even came with an executive order promoting open data from ...

A number of organizations, including Harvard University, have begun taking steps to preserve data files and other information as the Trump administration continues its sweeping purge of federal ...

Federal government requests to access state and local data have been met with some resistance, with some governments taking action to safeguard residents’ information from being used for immigration ...

Here are 11 serious and quirky indicators you can use to estimate how the economy is doing during the shutdown. The government shutdown is now in its 14th day. There’s still no sign of a deal and ...

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts. By Emily Badger and Sheera Frenkel The federal government knows your mother’s maiden ...

In any stable democracy, trust in government data is critical. Without such freely shared and reliable information, it is impossible to assess the condition of the nation, what changes are necessary ...

Scottish government’s NPF4 national planning framework states that "green data centres" will have an "overall negligible ...

Every month, the federal government serves up a steady diet of economic reports on everything from the price of groceries to the unemployment rate. These reports are closely followed: They can move ...