{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/18F/ideas/issues/2","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/18F/ideas/issues/2/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/18F/ideas/issues/2/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/18F/ideas/issues/2/events","html_url":"https://github.com/18F/ideas/issues/2","id":59918529,"number":2,"title":"data stories","user":{"login":"afeld","id":86842,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/86842?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/afeld","html_url":"https://github.com/afeld","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afeld/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afeld/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afeld/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afeld/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afeld/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afeld/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afeld/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afeld/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/afeld/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/18F/ideas/labels/content","name":"content","color":"bfd4f2"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-03-05T08:10:18Z","updated_at":"2015-03-05T14:44:10Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I've had a few discussions recently about some different ways that government data/APIs get used by different groups:\r\n\r\n* Civic hackers\r\n    * [NYC BigApps](http://nycbigapps.com/finalists) (and similar) finalists\r\n    * Everything on [I Quant NY](http://iquantny.tumblr.com/)\r\n        * Saw a cool talk by the creator recently about his back-and-forth trying to get policy change based on his findings\r\n    * Somewhat tangential: I started [a separate discussion](https://talk.beta.nyc/t/engaging-government-folks/135) about how to connect civic hackers with the appropriate people in government.\r\n* Journalists\r\n    * Data behind the President's 2016 Budget was [published](https://github.com/WhiteHouse/2016-budget-data) – does anyone know if this was leveraged for anything?\r\n* Companies\r\n    * NOAA data being used directly or indirectly by basically every news/weather company/app\r\n    * IRS's [e-file provider program](http://www.irs.gov/Tax-Professionals/e-File-Providers-&-Partners/Become-an-Authorized-e-file-Provider): creating an ecosystem of tax filing systems, rather than just building one system in-house\r\n    * More examples from @luisdaniel / @GovLab's [Open Data 500](http://www.opendata500.com/)\r\n* Across government\r\n    * I met @alldayiwonder recently, who does air quality research for the EPA. He was saying that part of his job (if I remember correctly) involves tracking down building permits, which some states bury as PDFs on a website somewhere, while others need to be requested as hard copy. He was explaining how much easier his work would be if they were available they were easily accessible and parseable, a.k.a how much time (and thus taxpayer money) this could save.\r\n    * [CAP](https://18f.gsa.gov/dashboard/project/C2/) ran into an issue recently where having [a publicly-available machine-readable list of federal buildings](https://github.com/18F/C2/blob/dd245139e31998d7a4ad80e5666291a9bd6b71f8/config/data/ncr.yaml) would saved us a ton of back-and-forth emails and calls.\r\n\r\nI'm sure there are a zillion great examples I'm leaving out. All of these cases have good stories of how they came to be, how the data was/is used, what change they effected, what economic impact they had, etc. Bonus: these use cases provide concrete examples of how and why data/APIs should be made available, on top of the \"being transparent\" argument. Advertising for openness!\r\n\r\nThis might not make sense as \"an official 18F project\", but at the very least, I'm curious to hear other examples that come to mind. It could be an interesting series of (guest?) blog posts... @melodykramer I will be drafting your ~~mind control~~ media skills :newspaper: :massage: :zap: \r\n\r\n/cc @gbinal @kinlane @luisdaniel @philipashlock @rebeccawilliams @seanherron "},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/18F/ideas/issues/comments/77375121","html_url":"https://github.com/18F/ideas/issues/2#issuecomment-77375121","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/18F/ideas/issues/2","id":77375121,"user":{"login":"bsweger","id":540544,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/540544?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/bsweger","html_url":"https://github.com/bsweger","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bsweger/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bsweger/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bsweger/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bsweger/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bsweger/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bsweger/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bsweger/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bsweger/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/bsweger/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-03-05T14:44:10Z","updated_at":"2015-03-05T14:44:10Z","body":"Not technically a journalism project, but at my last gig we launched State Smart, a site about federal spending in the states that combined Census, USASpending, BLS, and BEA data: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/smart/\r\n\r\nMost of our media interest came from regional shops that don't have staff to pull these figures together themselves."}}