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Ask HN: Why does the number of datasets on data.gov vary so much?
5 days (or so) ago, I remember seeing 438k, now it is 391K. What happened to the ~47K?
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/
Is this a bug?
- toomuchtodo 9mo agoOne should expect substantial flux of data available under the current administration. HN Search: data.gov - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=data.gov https://hn.algolia.com/?q=data.gov A 16TB Mirror of Data.gov on Source.Coop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974533 - February 2025 (18 comments) Announcing the data.gov archive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970039 - February 2025 (132 comments) Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367 - January 2025 (238 comments) The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876055 - January 2025 (58 comments)
- SilverElfin 9mo agoDoes any nonprofit maintain an archive of everything?
- toomuchtodo 9mo agoYes.
- pseudohadamard 9mo agoNo, it's the government removing any facts they disagree with. There's an ongoing effort by staff to try and save the data from the government's Fahrenheit 451 approach, but it's only sometimes successful.