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    "title" : "Using Code to Spur Innovation |Digital.gov",
    "description": "Using Code to Spur Innovation",
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    {"title" :"Using Code to Spur Innovation","summary" : "This week, President Obama will travel to SxSW (South by Southwest) to talk about how we can use technology to tackle tough challenges. This underscores how important data—government data, in particular—is to improving and fueling our democracy forward. 2015 saw many open data milestones by agencies, including: New advancements in HHS’s syndication storefront New features","date" : "2016-03-08T04:07:41-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"andreanocesigritz" : "Andrea Sigritz"},"topics" : {
        
            "open-data" : "Open data",
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      "filepath" :"news/2016/03/2016-03-08-using-code-to-spur-innovation.md",
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2016/03/2016-03-08-using-code-to-spur-innovation.md","slug" : "using-code-to-spur-innovation","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/03/08/using-code-to-spur-innovation/","content" :"\u003cp\u003eThis week, President Obama will \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/03/05/weekly-address-sxsw\"\u003etravel to SxSW (South by Southwest)\u003c/a\u003e to talk about how we can use technology to tackle tough challenges. This underscores how important data—government data, in particular—is to improving and fueling our democracy forward. 2015 saw many \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/02/05/open-data-empowering-americans-make-data-driven-decisions\"\u003eopen data milestones\u003c/a\u003e by agencies, including:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/12/21/with-collaboration-comes-great-things/\"\u003eNew advancements in HHS’s syndication storefront\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew features to \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/12/01/analytics-usa-gov-new-features-and-more-data/\"\u003eanalytics.usa.gov\u003c/a\u003e dashboard (now with \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/02/18/analytics-usa-gov-now-with-agency-specific-dashboards/\"\u003eagency-specific dashboards\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/09/23/the-data-briefing-surrounded-by-fields-of-federal-data-u-s-patent-and-trademark-offices-patentsview/\"\u003eUSPTO’s PatentsView\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/09/18/under-the-hood-building-a-new-college-scorecard-with-students/\"\u003eEducation’s New College Scorecard\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/07/24/free-the-data-femas-new-data-visualization-tool/\"\u003eFEMA’s new Data Visualization Tool\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAPIs from \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/07/09/introducing-the-federal-election-commissions-first-api/\"\u003eFEC\u003c/a\u003e , \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/07/01/safety-and-transparency-through-data/\"\u003eLabor\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2015/05/27/the-api-briefing-nasa-builds-api-nasa-gov-to-launch-more-apis-to-developers/\"\u003eNASA\u003c/a\u003e (\u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/topics/application-programming-interface/\"\u003eto name a few\u003c/a\u003e)\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is also more to come (and more that’s needed). This month on DigitalGov we’ll take a look at what else agencies are working on, including:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow a \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/03/22/the-postal-service-just-broke-analytics-usa-gov/\"\u003enew agency addition to DAP impacts analytics.usa.gov\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA look at \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/04/01/your-trek-to-vesta-mars-starts-now/\"\u003enew datasets from NASA\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/03/25/mcc-builds-on-lessons-learned-in-launch-of-second-open-data-challenge/\"\u003eMCC’s lessons learned\u003c/a\u003e on their first open data challenge\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy agencies should pay attention to \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/03/02/the-data-briefing-serving-citizen-developers-inside-and-outside-of-the-federal-government/\"\u003ecitizen developers when their designing APIs\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn argument for the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/03/28/the-content-corner-code-is-a-tool-content-is-the-solution/\"\u003eidea that good content can trump good code\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/03/24/dot-seeking-data-for-new-national-transit-map/\"\u003eDOT’s request for schedule data\u003c/a\u003e to feed new National Transit Map\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/03/11/seeing-states-the-right-way-how-to-weigh-data-by-population/\"\u003eCFPB’s data analysts normalize location data\u003c/a\u003e and use \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/03/31/tag-management-a-digital-analysts-best-friend/\"\u003etag management\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA look at the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2016/03/09/the-data-briefing-mobile-websites-or-mobile-apps-or-both/\"\u003emobile development community’s debate\u003c/a\u003e over mobile apps vs. mobile websites\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n"}
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