Not to mention non-budgetary criticisms mined from the data. If a department or agency isn't already leaping forward to offer data (like the USGS, which is all

Not to mention non-budgetary criticisms mined from the data. If a department or agency isn't already leaping forward to offer data (like the USGS, which is all about offering data), it's reasonable to assume that the relevant people in that agency have no interest whatsoever in providing data. There's only so much low-hanging fruit before things start to better resemble pulling teeth.