The committee found that government departments were avoiding their obligations to produce information to strict standards by listing them as "management information" or "administrative data" instead of as official statistics.

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After launch, your app is in the Apple App store, Google Play or elsewhere and a wealth of information starts to flow including reviews and ratings, tweets, and usage statistics.

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Another exciting open data announcement came from the U.S. Census Bureau which updated its popular QuickFacts site with the new American Community Survey statistics (about 11 billion individual estimates), providing access to information about a town, county or state.

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