As federal data policy nerds, the question we get asked all the time is "How much data has the current administration terminated?"

We're encountering some real new frontiers around the complexity of data and what our society needs from federal data," said Denice Ross.

Federal data is a diverse ecosystem with well over 500,000 datasets – including those tackling Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD).

Denice Ross, who served as the nation’s second U.S. Chief Data Scientist, and her former White House colleague Christopher Marcum have launched the Federal Data Field Guide.

Meet the network saving federal environmental data. But, as Trump enters his second year, how long can this effort last?

This Thanksgiving, I asked some of my data friends and colleagues to join me in sharing what federal data we are most thankful for. It was hard narrowing it down to one dataset! Some of us chose a...

Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · 10/02/2025 · 1h 17m

"The first rule of government transformation is: there are a lot of rules. And there should be-ish. But we don't need to wait for permission to rewrite them. Let's go fix and build some things and sho...

Highlighting examples of how our essential public data serve the American people.

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There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists...

As the former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, I know first-hand how valuable and vulnerable our nation’s federal data assets are. Like many things in life, we’ve been taking our data for granted and will m...

by Melanie Klein Since January 20, 2025, new Presidential Actions, such as Executive Orders and Proclamations, have required federal agencies to subtly...

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Political storm clouds darkened the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration again this week as the weather and climate agency fired more than 1,000 workers for the second time within five week...

A top official at the General Services Administration said artificial intelligence could be used to identify waste and redundancies in federal contracts.

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