HACKER Q&A
📣 akudha

Why does the number of datasets on data.gov vary so much?


5 days (or so) ago, I remember seeing 438k, now it is 391K. What happened to the ~47K?

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/

Is this a bug?

  👤 toomuchtodo Accepted Answer ✓
One should expect substantial flux of data available under the current administration.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=data.gov

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974533

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970039

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42881367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876055

👤 pseudohadamard
No, it's the government removing any facts they disagree with. There's an ongoing effort by staff to try and save the data from the government's Fahrenheit 451 approach, but it's only sometimes successful.