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National Archives Catalog

archivesgovernment recordsnaranational archives catalog

The National Archives Catalog dataset contains all of the descriptions; authority records; digitized and electronic records; and tags, transcriptions and comments for NARA’s archival holdings available in the Catalog.

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Public Utility Data Liberation Project

climateclimate modelelectricityenergyenergy modelingenvironmentalgovernment recordsinfrastructureopen source softwareutilities

The Public Utility Data Liberation Project (PUDL) provides analysis-ready energy system data to climate advocates, researchers, policymakers, and journalists.

PUDL is an open source data processing pipeline that makes US energy data easier to access and use programmatically. Hundreds of gigabytes of valuable data are published by US government agencies, but it's often difficult to work with. PUDL takes the original spreadsheets, CSV files, and databases and turns them into a unified resource. This allows users to spend more time on novel analysis and less time on data preparation.

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mirrulations

government records

The regulations.gov website allows users to view proposed rules and supporting documents for the federal rule-making process. In addition, users can post and view comments about those proposed rules. The site contains about 27 million pieces of text and binary data, but the API that provides access only allows a user to obtain one thousand items per hour. As a result, it would take approximately 3 years to download all the data. Mirrulations (MIRRor of regULATIONS.gov) is a system that uses a collection of donated API keys to create a mirror of the data. In addition, for each pdf in the da...

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