[open-government] Examples of open data leading to increase in data quality?

[Eric Mill]

Great question, I would also love to hear some solid examples - documenting
this stuff is very hard.

For my anecdotal part, I've certainly reported lots of bugs in machine
readable data to the House of Representatives <http://clerk.house.gov/> and
to the Federal Register <https://www.federalregister.gov/>, and they've
fixed all of them promptly.

My understanding from working with people who work with UsaSpending.gov
data is that once FFATA <https://www.federalregister.gov/> created the
portal and mandated it be machine readable, the data got much better and
more complete. But I don't have any documentation for that.

-- Eric


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if anyone has any good examples or evidence of how open data (or
> - more generally - publicly released machine readable data) has led to an
> increase in data quality?
>
> All the best,
>
> Jonathan
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