Transparency Watch: Fountain of 'i3' Data Now Online
The Education Department has made good on promises to disclose more data on the 1,600-plus applicants for the $650 million Investing in Innovation, or i3, fund.
Officials have created a user-friendly Web portral that allows you to splice the information apart in dozens of ways. You can examine the data by geography, and figure out where the biggest—or smallest—concentrations of potential winners are located. You can see who applied for each tier of grants, how much money they want, and who their budget partners are. You can examine the applications by type of applicant, which allows you to see which school districts, nonprofits, and others are vying for this money.
I've complained before about the Education Department's difficult-to-navigate web site, and so I want to be among the first to cheer them on when they make data available in a particularly user-friendly sort of way.
The next question is whether the department has figured out when and how to make the contents of th
Officials have created a user-friendly Web portral that allows you to splice the information apart in dozens of ways. You can examine the data by geography, and figure out where the biggest—or smallest—concentrations of potential winners are located. You can see who applied for each tier of grants, how much money they want, and who their budget partners are. You can examine the applications by type of applicant, which allows you to see which school districts, nonprofits, and others are vying for this money.
I've complained before about the Education Department's difficult-to-navigate web site, and so I want to be among the first to cheer them on when they make data available in a particularly user-friendly sort of way.
The next question is whether the department has figured out when and how to make the contents of th
