Feb 25, 2022
Richard Coffin is the Chief Product Officer at USAFacts which is making government data available and understandable for a larger audience. With the growth of fake news, this non-partisan, non-profit organization serves as a trusted source for Americans giving them access to the data and analysis generated by a wide range of government agencies.
We talk about
* The USAFacts Third Annual State of the Union in Numbers report which includes a variety of data points about the impact of COVID on categories including population growth, crime, inflation, and employment
* What questions still need to be asked and what are people asking about that is not available
* Challenges of getting timely data from State and local government agencies and who is still using paper documents and static PDF files
* Innovations for gathering more data faster and finding the best dataset to address a question
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