After significant changes in U.S. government data handling, statisticians and computer scientists are taking action to preserve and share data sets. They argue that democracy suffers when reliable data is inaccessible. The integrity of agencies managing statistical data is under threat due to job cuts and modifications of key data sets. Critical information on gender, health, and climate change has been affected. Currently, vast amounts of public data are unmanageable due to staff reductions, hindering appropriate data access and preservation.
An army of outside statisticians, demographers and computer scientists have joined forces to capture, preserve and share data sets, sometimes clandestinely, ensuring their future availability.
There are trillions of bytes of data files that are inaccessible because there are no staff to appropriately manage those data, leading to significant challenges.
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