Ask HN: Why does the number of datasets on data.gov vary so much?
7 points
7 hours ago
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5 days (or so) ago, I remember seeing 438k, now it is 391K. What happened to the ~47K?

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/

Is this a bug?

toomuchtodo
7 hours ago
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One should expect substantial flux of data available under the current administration.

HN Search: data.gov - https://hn.algolia.com/?q=data.gov

A 16TB Mirror of Data.gov on Source.Coop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974533 - February 2025 (18 comments)

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The US government's open data on Data.gov is currently being scrubbed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876055 - January 2025 (58 comments)

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SilverElfin
7 hours ago
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Does any nonprofit maintain an archive of everything?
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toomuchtodo
6 hours ago
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Yes.
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