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

5•akudha•1h 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•1h ago

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

SilverElfin•1h ago

Does any nonprofit maintain an archive of everything?

toomuchtodo•1h ago

Yes.

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