Data.gov

Last week the government launched the highly anticipated data.gov. Data.gov is a web site intended to increase public access to data collected by the government.  For most of us (myself included), the data.gov website isn’t going to be where we go when we’re looking for government information. Why? Because all this data is in machine-readable form – which means it’s not displayed in a way that’s usable for the average human. But that’s where the fun begins. Web developers take the mountains of raw data, apply a spark of genius, and voila! They come up with a product that’s useful for you and me. There’s even a contest for web developers to use data from data.gov to create compelling applications. I can’t wait to see what they do. (Source: GovGab Blog Team)