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Guest Post: Eggs Don’t Grow on Trees and Neither Does Data: How to Teach K-12 Students Where Data Comes From
Second in a series of posts about federal data and the Federal Statistical System.
Lynda Kellam
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Guest Post: The Forgotten Egg: The Importance of Public Federal Data in the United States
The Federal Statistical System impacts everyone in the US (and many globally) whether they realize it or not.
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Updates from the SaveOurSigns Campaign
Join us on September 17 to learn more about Save Our Signs!
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The Federal Statistical System Under Threat
Learn about the Federal Statistical System and ways to support it. Public data is a public good!
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Save Our Signs: Let’s Get It Done
Help us finish strong with #SaveOurSigns this Labor Day. Plus, if you’re in NYC, come see us in person!
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Teaching with Disappearing Data: Invitation to Participate in Study
Today, we have another guest post from a Data Rescue Project volunteer. Jeanine is conducting a survey of instructors who teach with government data. In addition, we will have our regular office hours this week on Wednesday, August 20, from 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern. Please join
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NCES Tables: Rescues in Progress
Since we started the Data Rescue Project (DRP), we have received many requests for saving the tables libraries associated with the National Center for Education Statistics surveys. The tables libraries in DataLab provide quick reference and summary statistics for researchers of the work the NCES does: research on safety in
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Support for the BLS
We imagine that many of you have already heard the news about last night's removal of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner, Erika McEntarfer. We are dismayed by these actions and join our partner groups, the Friends of BLS, COPAFS, APDU, and others, in calling on Congress to
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Flood Predictions: A Data User Story
Today, we are back to featuring some data user stories. Thank you to Natasha Randall for sending this post about the importance of public data for her research on flood prediction. I am a PhD student, and my research topic is on developing deep learning (AI) models for flood prediction.
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Rescuing USAID Data
We are excited about the upcoming RDAP Hackathon! This time they are partnering with DataFirst and ICPSR to rescue data that was previously publicly-available on the USAID's knowledge platform. Date: August 7, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (Eastern) Registration link: https://rdapassociation.org/event-
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UCLA's LPPI and the Latino Data Hub
We are excited to partner with the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) to highlight updates to their Latino Data Hub. Come to their webinar to learn more about the Latino Data Hub and the power of public data! If you are keeping up with us, check out our
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Guest Post: Sonification and Data Rescue 🛟
At the recent IASSIST conference, we learned of an effort to sonify the work connected to our Data Rescue Project Tracker. Sonification is a fascinating area used in a variety of fields. This project conveys well the urgency we all felt during the early months of 2025, so we invited