Hacker News with Generative AI: Public Data

Digital Archivists: Protecting Public Data from Erasure (ieee.org)
Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets
Data Preservation, Public Data, Libraries, APIs, Government Data
207 points by rbanffy 24 days ago | 46 comments
NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV (theconversation.com)
When a hurricane or tornado starts to form, your local weather forecasters can quickly pull up maps tracking its movement and showing where it’s headed. But have you ever wondered where they get all that information?
Weather, Meteorology, Data, Technology, Public Data
188 points by rntn 73 days ago | 113 comments
Compensation Data for Every NYC Police Officer (cityofnewyork.us)
Police, Public Data, Transparency, Compensation
5 points by gigalord 76 days ago | 1 comments
Traffic Cam Selfie Creator Holds Cease and Desist Letter in Front of Traffic Cam (404media.co)
Artist Morry Kolman made a website called Traffic Cam Photobooth that lets people take “selfies” using publicly-available feeds from traffic cameras. The New York City Department of Transportation sent him a cease and desist letter demanding he cut it out.
Art, Technology, Public Data, Surveillance
22 points by Jocund 134 days ago | 4 comments
The Corpus of United States State Statutes–Design, Construction and Use (ssrn.com)
There is a need for more publicly available corpora of legal language.
Legal Research, Data Science, Legal Language, Public Data
19 points by cwmoore 163 days ago | 4 comments
Utah tech officer fired after pushing back against plans to scrub public data (ksl.com)
Government, Public Data, Transparency, Utah, Technology
14 points by josephscott 284 days ago | 0 comments