Support Dearly Departed Datasets

Our friends at EssentialData.US, Federation of American Scientists (FAS), and Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP) have set up a campaign this Halloween season to recognize the Dearly Departed Datasets, or the federal government datasets that have been terminated or removed. 

They want you to nominate the following:

🎃 datasets that have been removed from public access
🎃 datasets that remain available but further data collections have been terminated
🎃 data elements that were removed from a dataset that still exists
🎃 specialized data tools that provide easy access to the data

Read more on their nomination form.

Below are some examples of datasets that have met an untimely end 💀 or morphed into zombie 🧟 versions. 

• 🪦 USDA Current Population Survey Food Security Supplement (CPS-FSS) — terminated
• 🪦 EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) — terminated
• 🪦 NOAA Billion-Dollar Disasters Database — terminated
• 🪦 BLS Mass Layoff Statistics - terminated
• 🕸️ FEMA Future Risk Index — taken down
• 🕸️ DHS Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) Open — taken down
• 🕸️ CEQ Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) — taken down
• 🕸️ EPA Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool (EJScreen) — taken down
• 🕸️ Community Resilience Estimates Equity Supplement (Census) - taken down
• 👻 OPM FedScope — race and ethnicity data removed
• 👻 BJS National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) — gender data removed
• 👻 BOP Inmate Statistics — transgender data removed

We know our DRP members are keeping an eye on data that has gone missing, so be sure to help them out! 🎃🛟