Additional Resources
The Democratizing Data initiative has a number of associated publications, reports, and additional resources that provide additional information on our guiding principles and processes.
Research Publications
Peer-reviewed papers, reports, and articles from leading academic and policy institutions that support our data democratization mission.
Continuing Implementation of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018: Who Is Using the Data?
In this Effective Policy Learning piece, the author describes how the Democratizing Data Search and Discovery Platform is making great strides in helping meet the mandates of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (Evidence Act) and demonstrating the value of federal data.
Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto
Public data are foundational to our democratic system. People need consistently high-quality information from trustworthy sources. In the new economy, wealth is generated by access to data; government's job is to democratize the data playing field.
Data Inventories for the Modern Age? Using Data Science to Open Government Data
This article describes how data science techniques—machine learning and natural language processing—can be used to open the black box of government data. It then describes how an incentive structure can be established using human–computer interaction techniques.
Rich Search and Discovery for Research Datasets
This ground-breaking book explores how automating the search for and discovery of datasets can help tackle irreproducibility in social science.
Show US the Data Podcast Series
The Show US the Data podcast series is a series of six five-minute podcasts, discussing a variety of data sets from agencies that participated in the Show US the Data pilot study.
This paper presents a comprehensive framework for intelligent data discovery and delivery to democratize access to large-scale scientific facility data using machine learning and content delivery network technologies.