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As a joint project of two 501(c)3 non-profit organizations, the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation, OpenGovernment will empower individuals and organizations to track government at every level.

You can support the open-source work on OpenGovernment by becoming a Booster of the non-profit Participatory Politics Foundation (a tax-exempt recurring donation of $1/day), giving a one-time charitable gift, or by forking the code on GitHub and start hacking.

The release of the R package “googleVis” has made the production of interactive maps through Google’s Chart Tools a simple task.

Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009.

we announce TileMill, a project that brings map design to new audiences and pushes a modular, open source stack that's fast, easy to use, and intelligent

It should come as no surprise to readers of Datablog that, as editor Simon Rogers puts it himself, "we are drowning in data." We suddenly find ourselves with unprecedented access to torrents of data that could be used to better society.

To help bridge the gap between socially minded organizations and do-good dataists, we started a project temporarily dubbed "Data Without Borders".