One year ago this Friday, United States chief information officer Vivek Kundra launched an ambitious website called Data.gov to make the government’s vast stores of data available to the public. The ...

Collecting high-quality genomic data is time-consuming, expensive, and often only possible through large-scale national efforts. Thankfully, a new tool developed by the UC Santa Cruz Genomics ...

Even a cursory examination of Data.gov's newly released high-value datasets revealed 10 types of quality deficiencies, says columnist Mike Daconta. Transparency should be a three-legged stool of ...

Data disruptions could cause big issues in both the public and private sectors. What happens when one of the world's largest repositories of free information becomes unreliable? That dire situation ...