USA Facts – Federal, state, and local data from government sources

There is no such thing as a politically neutral fact these days. Where leadership is based on fantastical assertions pulled from the air, the machine measuring daily rainfall is a partisan political pundit to be attacked and sidelined at will. Fact-reporting organizations are moot when those in power care only for opinion and "gut". While i support such efforts, I fear that at the current moment our problems are too fundimental for them to have any net impact.

Cool. I like to get my "facts" from an unverified source.

While it is more than a bit absurd it doesn't work with https, I am not sure the "s" provides much fact verification.

This would be really powerful if it provided access to the original data sources.

Imagine if you could analyze the results of public policy, with clean and detailed data, independently curated, without political or bureaucratic distortions.

The US has 3,000 counties and 20,000 towns and cities, each one a petri dish of experiments in governance. Imagine what we could learn!

From the NYT [1]:

  Want to know how many police officers are employed in various
  parts of the country and compare that against crime rates?

  Want to know how much revenue is brought in from parking tickets
  and the cost to collect?

  Want to know what percentage of Americans suffer from diagnosed
  depression and how much the government spends on it?

  That’s in there. You can slice the numbers in all sorts of ways.

Unfortunately, I'm not seeing source data on the site. There are high-level charts and PDF reports so far.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/17/business/dealbook/steve-b...

Seems to be unfinished as in the UI.