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

8•akudha•1w ago

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?

Comments

toomuchtodo•1w ago

One should expect substantial flux of data available under the current administration.

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SilverElfin•1w ago

Does any nonprofit maintain an archive of everything?

toomuchtodo•1w ago

Yes.

pseudohadamard•1w ago

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.

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