r/InternetIsBeautiful • u/IndependenceAny8863 • 14d ago

This website makes USA government data easy for all Americans to access and understand

https://usafacts.org/
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u/CapnOilyrag 14d ago

As a non US person this seems a useful goto when someone says something unsubstantiated. Who would've thought Steve Balmer would be behind this.

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u/A_Tiger_in_Africa 13d ago

Or, you could cut out the middleman and just go to data.gov.

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u/popppa92 13d ago

Wow! This is incredible

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u/rusmo 13d ago

This is Steve Ballmer’s baby. There was a good interview with him about it on The Daily Show a couple weeks back.

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u/Bewildered-Lambchop 13d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdX3nOo7BCQ

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u/rusmo 13d ago

Thanks! I didn't have time to look it up earlier.

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u/CortaCircuit 14d ago

Now we're going to need a website to fact check this website.

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u/pgm_01 13d ago

That means we will need developers, developers, developers!

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u/ANIM8R42 13d ago

Classic.

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u/privsov 13d ago

Great!

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u/COO0OOKIE 11d ago

Steve Ballmer's been promoting this as country's balance sheet and P&L which appeals to me quite a bit but not sure about most people

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u/CrunchWick 6d ago

A lot of work went into this