now that’s a great idea! (data.gov)
The government decided to do something useful with a few of its copious data stores, excellent!
After perusing data.gov a bit, there are quite a few useful data sources. More importantly, this
could be much larger than it currently is, and represents a huge opportunity for so many federal organizations to share their data
not only with one another, but with us normal folks too.
Imagine having this sort of programmatic access to a wider range of data over a wider time frame.
It puts all sorts of interesting statistical and scientific measurement opportunities into the hands of a
great many people.
It will be very interesting to see what comes of this effort.