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If you drill down to any individual metric, e.g. http://usafacts.org/metrics/12892 http://usafacts.org/metrics/12892 it says "Sources for this data are coming s
by avar 10y ago
If you drill down to any individual metric, e.g. http://usafacts.org/metrics/12892 http://usafacts.org/metrics/12892 it says "Sources for this data are coming soon" & "Download coming soon". Give them some time, they just launched.
- jdc0589 10y agothats pretty important... The entire point of this thing is to be transparent.
- droopyEyelids 10y agoThats the creator's presentation of the purpose of it. Snarky? yes, but an important distinction. A truly objective point of view doesn't exist as far as we know.
- true_religion 10y agoWell it is, but I wasn't planning on taking their numbers and running with them today, so I think its okay if their MVP is "here's some numbers, we'll tell you how we got them next week". All that level of detail is necessary to make things actionable, but if they're gathering data no one cares about---that's pretty important, and you can't know that before launch.
- dkonofalski 10y agoConsidering that this site isn't really involved with any of the organizations providing the data, it's not really "transparent" in the sense that it should be. Even if they provide the data for download, there's no way to verify that it hasn't been tampered or transformed since its initial collection. They would need to link to the actual sources directly and I don't think that's going to happen.