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Data.gov Proves Good Stats are Hard to Wrangle

The Dept. of the Interior says population counts of wild horses is "high-value."

Poring through the statistics and research made available on Data.gov that is relevant to their areas of interest, a small handful of researchers I spoke to say that much of it is stuff they've either seen before or don't find especially useful.

The Sunlight Foundation's Bill Allison has already opined on this subject: the OMB directive mandated that federal agencies post only "data sets not previously available online or in a downloadable format."

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