Bureau of Labor Statistics Public Data API

Post by Alex3917 » Sat, Sep 14, 2013, 6:46 PM UTC

seanherron wrote: post #18

Alex3917 wrote: post #10

This is huge. I can't wait to use this. Now we just need the same thing from the CDC, FDA, DOJ, DOE, etc.

Hey Alex, I'm a Presidential Innovation Fellow focusing on open data initiatives at the FDA. I'm working to get a number of our datasets made public and available via APIs. I'd love to talk to you about what would be useful to you (and others) and how we can help. Feel free to email me at sean.herron@fda.hhs.gov if you want to chat.

Post by skram » Sat, Sep 14, 2013, 8:53 PM UTC

pdfcollect wrote: post #22

When is this department going to collect the data ( or perhaps it already does? ) - Which major in college actually gets jobs for students (say within 5 years of graduation - according to their training) ? Last time I called them, they told me, you should do your own statistics if you want to answer that. Does anyone know?

Post by hrbrmstr » Sun, Sep 15, 2013, 12:11 AM UTC

pwang wrote: post #24

That's incredible... a statistical data JSON API that provides Java and Ruby code snippets, but not Python, R, or even Javascript. My right-wing friends would cite this as further evidence that the Obama administration is out of touch. Maybe it's a backhanded complement and they think that Python and R folks can figure this out on their own...? :-)