May, 2015

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Launching the Police Data Initiative

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Today, the President is in Camden to talk about the promising progress that city is making in enhancing community policing. Last December, President Obama launched the Task Force on 21st Century Policing to better understand specific policing challenges and help communities … Continued. The post Launching the Police Data Initiative appeared first on Data.gov.

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Data.gov Turns Six!

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Today is the sixth anniversary of Data.gov. Data.gov was launched on May 21, 2009 with just 47 datasets. It currently features over 130,000 datasets from across the country including those from 83 Federal agencies and sub-agencies. Since the landmark 2013 … Continued. The post Data.gov Turns Six! appeared first on Data.gov.

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A multi-university initiative makes global climate information more accesible to farmers

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Useful to Usable (u2u) offers a suite of online tools created to help farmers and agricultural advisers manage increasingly variable weather and climate conditions across the Corn Belt. They provide historical climate data that help inform purchasing, marketing and activity planning … Continued. The post A multi-university initiative makes global climate information more accesible to farmers appeared first on Data.gov.