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ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY
As a non-partisan, non-profit think thank, the Data Foundation conducts research and provides commentary related to open data and evidence-informed policy in government. On this page, you will find formal research products, such as reports and white papers, as well as thought leadership, including blogs, op-eds, and public statements.
Getting our Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) taught us that the biggest barriers to data standards adoption aren't technical or financial. They're fear o… More...
Vice Chair, Data Foundation Board Of Directors | President & CEO, Kaptivate LLC More...
New data.opm.gov delivers on 2025 commitment with enhanced transparency and usability More...
Getting our Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) taught us that the biggest barriers to data standards adoption aren't technical or financial. They're fear o… More...
Building data infrastructure that survives political transitions - Nick Hart's letter published in The Washington Post on the future of trusted govern… More...
Delivering high-quality data at scale has been one of the biggest challenges facing data professionals. The good news is, with AI, the toolkit to tack… More...
New data.opm.gov delivers on 2025 commitment with enhanced transparency and usability More...
Four leading experts in climate science and environmental data have joined the Data Foundation's Climate Data Collaborative as Senior Fellows. More...
In response to the National Science Foundation's announced intent to restructure the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the Data Fou… More...
Tracking Changes in America's Data and Evaluation Infrastructure in 2025 More...
This paper provides a practical roadmap for implementing the Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA) in a way that accelerates the U.S. journey toward … More...
In this webinar, the Climate Data Collaborative team and the Vice President of Workiva shared 10 key takeaways from the 30th Climate Change Conference… More...
The Data Foundation debuts the new Evidence Act Hub, a digital repository and knowledge hub that brings together U.S. federal data and evaluation reso… More...
This week, we explored how the FDTA mandates for machine-readable, non-proprietary, searchable data can serve as the catalyst to bring SBR-style effic… More...
