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Data.gov

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- [Instructor] Data.gov is the United States federal government's data clearing house, where you can find links to data from all federal websites and many state and local connections as well. If you're not sure which government site, or bureau has the data you're looking for, searching at data.gov is a great place to start. The website, as you can see, is www.data.gov. At the top you have the data page and if you click that, it will take you to a list of all the data sets. If you click topics, you'll see that there is a list of topics and you would have also seen those, if you would have scrolled down a bit on the main page. Now that we're here, let's take a look at one of the topic areas. I think I'll click, science and research. And here we have highlighted data sets and also sets that we can search for. So we have information about sturgeon and we also have a list of updates. So federal R and D facilities, occupational information network and so on. The most recent updates we have…

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