Open Aggregators & Data Platforms
U.S. Federal Government Open Data
U.S. GSA
Data.gov
Real-world messy data handling, geospatial analysis, public policy impact evaluation.
📊 Overview
Platform: Data.gov
Domain: U.S. Federal Government Open Data
Maintained by: U.S. GSA
📥 Access & Resources
Access and formats:
CSV, JSON, GeoJSON, API
R wrapper package:
ckanr
Python wrapper package:
ckanapi
🎯 Teaching & Analysis
Real-world messy data handling, geospatial analysis, public policy impact evaluation.
Use this dataset to
- Search U.S. federal open-data catalogs
- Retrieve public datasets through CKAN and APIs
- Practice cleaning real-world government data
- Conduct policy and geospatial analysis