>Usually when you get government "transparency" it is in the form of a PDF of poorly photocopied documents as images which are effectively useless from a analys

>Usually when you get government "transparency" it is in the form of a PDF of poorly photocopied documents as images which are effectively useless from a analysis standpoint, unless you have many humans ready to read/transcribe. Of the largest 20 cities in the US, all but one have open data sites where you can programmatically pull down datasets. I feel like this is more becoming the norm rather than the exception. Maybe it's just smaller municipalities that don't have open data sites?