Facts and logic require transparency and data

Good decisions require thought and information. In order to do science, data is needed, and the tools to analyze data are needed. To negatively impact the ability to make good decisions, attack the ability to disseminate information and limit access to data.

As of Feb 22, 2017, the website open.whitehouse.gov/browse has no data posted.

Figure 1. https://open.whitehouse.gov/browse as of Feb 22, 2017.

Two counters: disseminate data widely. Make tools for data analysis available

Happily, Max Ogden downloaded 40 TB of open data in the last month.

Figure 2. https://gist.github.com/maxogden/d1e3f14bb9253ef9638a40826b000f08 as of Feb 22, 2017

Archive: https://open.obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/

Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13646712