Denice W. Ross
@denicewross.bsky.social
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Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist. Building a more resilient national data infrastrucuture ❤️🇺🇸📊
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dataindex.us
about 1 month ago
🚨 USDA has terminated the Food Security Supplement (FSS), the only nationally representative measure of household food insecurity. 🗓️ Register for our Rapid Response Data Briefing here:
tinyurl.com/FSS-webinar
✍️ Submit a comment to save the data:
tinyurl.com/FSS-comment-...
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Sirens: A Bombshell Production
about 1 month ago
New episode! Special guest Denice Ross joins to talk about the federal data ecosystem and why it matters for democratic accountability. Plus: H1B changes, new senate rules on nominations, and yes, the great gaggle of gobsmacked GOFOs. Plus: Robert Redford!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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UNGA, Advise & Consent, Democratic Data
Podcast Episode · Sirens: A Bombshell production · 10/02/2025 · 1h 17m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bombshell/id1195698408?i=1000729690147
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dataindex.us
about 2 months ago
📣 In the first 6 months of the Trump Administration, we found 100s of information collections influenced by Presidential Actions. These numbers illustrate how policy shifts at the executive level can shape federal data.
www.dataindex.us/newsletter/a...
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Federation of American Scientists
about 2 months ago
Here are FIVE surprising ways federal data make your life better, with our friends at
@essentialdata.us
: 1. We get up to $53B/yr free pest control because we don't accidentally build bridges through bat habitats 2. We know where to get those sweet, sweet space minerals 3. Labubu matcha
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JPWeiland
2 months ago
The CDC quietly neutered the best Covid data on the planet yesterday. ED data visualization has been stripped of age stratification, and state-by-state trends. ED data has been far better for state by state trends than WW. Poof.
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dataindex.us
2 months ago
The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) has been cancelled for 2025. In our latest blog post, Peter Bonner explains what key stakeholders will lose when this legally required data isn’t collected. Read the full blog post to learn more:
www.dataindex.us/newsletter/a...
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By Eliminating the 2025 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS) We Lose A Critical Performance Feedback Loop | America's Data Index
https://www.dataindex.us/newsletter/article/a0bc4774-5faf-47f0-bdf7-f6a82bac5733
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Erica Groshen
3 months ago
“Losing trust in government statistics wouldn’t be the end of the world, but it would be the end of the world as we know it.” Sobering thoughts for investors and others from Jeff Sommer. What if You Can’t Believe the Official Numbers?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/b...
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@aaronsojourner.org
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What if You Can’t Believe the Official Numbers?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/business/jobs-numbers-trump-economy-statistics.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Loren DeJonge Schulman
3 months ago
"The first rule of government transformation is: there are a lot of rules. And there should be-ish. But we don’t need to wait for permission to rewrite them. Let’s go fix and build some things and show how it’s done.” We don't need to wait for permission to rewrite them!
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Direct File Is the Floor, Not the Ceiling
"The first rule of government transformation is: there are a lot of rules. And there should be-ish. But we don't need to wait for permission to rewrite them. Let's go fix and build some things and sho...
https://fas.org/publication/direct-file-is-the-floor-not-ceiling/
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America's Essential Data ❤️📈🇺🇸
3 months ago
The public data that we all rely on is under attack, from economic statistics 📈 to weather data🌪️. So we are sharing stories every day about how essential public data is. Calling all data nerds to add your favorite dataset to the collection at
essentialdata.us
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America's Essential Data
Highlighting examples of how our essential public data serve the American people.
https://essentialdata.us
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Lynn
3 months ago
@fooddatanerd.com
monicatranel.substack.com/p/privacy-or...
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Privacy or Food
The U.S.
https://monicatranel.substack.com/p/privacy-or-food
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Katie McCaskey
3 months ago
On
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: former U.S. Chief Data Scientist &
@scientistsorg.bsky.social
sr fellow
@denicewross.bsky.social
There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities” 🧪📉
www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...
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Federal data has been disappearing under Trump
There’s been a “targeted, surgical removal of data sets, or elements of data sets, that are not aligned with the administration’s priorities,” said Denice Ross at the Federation of American Scientists...
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/07/28/federal-data-has-been-disappearing-under-trump
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dataindex.us
4 months ago
#dataSky
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What I’ve been up to:
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4 months ago
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In this 6 min read I cover a lot of data ground -- 📪 junk mail, the 🚢 Titanic, 🦇 bats, 👮 police, 🛫 air travel, and 🤖 🌊 captainless ships TL;DR If you use federal data, now's the time to start telling the story about why it matters
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Federation of American Scientists
5 months ago
As the former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, Denice Ross knows first-hand how valuable and vulnerable our nation’s federal data assets are. For those who rely on federal data in small or large ways, it’s time to champion the federal data we often take for granted ⤵️
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The Data We Take for Granted
As the former U.S. Chief Data Scientist, I know first-hand how valuable and vulnerable our nation’s federal data assets are. Like many things in life, we’ve been taking our data for granted and will m...
https://fas.org/publication/the-data-we-take-for-granted/
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Randy Rosso
5 months ago
🥗
@dataindex.us
uncovered a notice of an alarming new National SNAP Information Database, which will include PII like SSN, name, address of SNAP participants (and applicants!).
updates.dataindex.us/archive/unco...
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Uncovering Changes to Federal Data: 06/07/2025 – 06/13/2025 ICR Roundup
by Melanie Klein Since January 20, 2025, new Presidential Actions, such as Executive Orders and Proclamations, have required federal agencies to subtly...
https://updates.dataindex.us/archive/uncovering-changes-to-federal-data-06072025/
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Federal data friends -- NEW resource
@dataindex.us
tracks changes to federal forms and surveys subject to the paperwork reduction act. It's pretty wonky, but the patterns start to emerge when you watch the changes over time.
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Federal US domain bot
7 months ago
❌ NOTICE Federal US website newly deleted. https://greengov.gov Action taken by the Environmental Protection Agency (Office of Federal Sustainability) at or around 2025-04-11 06:11:02.
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Federal US website delisted. URL is not valid.
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Bob Berwyn
7 months ago
1. We have enough information to act on the climate crisis NOW, even if every single measurement stops. 2. We need to know how bad it's going to get, and if our mitigation efforts are working. These can be true at the same time.
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As NOAA Cuts Continue, Ocean Researchers Worry About Monitoring Programs - Inside Climate News
Political storm clouds darkened the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration again this week as the weather and climate agency fired more than 1,000 workers for the second time within five week...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/11042025/noaa-cuts-continue-ocean-researchers-worry/
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Today marks my first day as a senior fellow with the amazing team at
@scientistsorg.bsky.social
! For the next 6 mos, we’ll be working together to document the value of federal data (incl statistical surveys, administrative records, & biophysical measurements) for the American people ❤️🇺🇸📊. More soon!
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Ami Fields-Meyer
9 months ago
1/ I suspect we are days away from hearing Elon is "using AI" to “streamline” benefits programs. You should know why fully automating decisions about who gets critical assistance is a terrible idea that will have disastrous consequences. A 🧵 based on work I’ve done with the great
@awhf.bsky.social
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Musk Allies Discuss Deploying A.I. to Find Budget Savings
A top official at the General Services Administration said artificial intelligence could be used to identify waste and redundancies in federal contracts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/technology/musk-allies-ai-government.html
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amac
10 months ago
President Trump’s Executive Order re: DOGE is not the most important nor most inhumane EO from yesterday, but here’s a thread about it.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Establishing And Implementing The President's "Department Of Government Efficiency" – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/establishing-and-implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency/
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