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Jonathan Stiles
@jonathanstiles.bsky.social
Urban planning teacher, researcher, technologist focused on transportation and technology. Current Columbia GSAPP; Former FAU, Ohio State & Rutgers.
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New, at Can We Still Govern: Former 18F employees explain what was lost when they it was zeroed out by DOGE.

"18F works just how Musk and team pretend that they want government to work. But when his team found it, they destroyed it."
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/requiem-fo...
Requiem for 18F
A small government unit did what DOGE is pretending to do
donmoynihan.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Reposted by Jonathan Stiles
PolicyMap just sent out an update that CDC PLACES (Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates), the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI), and the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool remain available on their site (CEJST)https://www.policymap.com/blog/purged-federal-agency-data-available
Purged Federal Agency Data Available on PolicyMap
On Friday, numerous essential datasets were purged from federal agency websites, including data from CDC PLACES (Population Level Analysis and Community Estimates), the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI...
www.policymap.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
PLACES data has been removed from CDC by the new administration. I've linked to my copy of data releases 2020-2024 below, as well as a key article about the project. It is a great resource for teaching and research. I'll promote it more as I get time. The things they delete still exist.
PLACES Data Download (after removal from CDC site)
On February 1st the Trump administration removed the PLACES project and data from the CDC website, and as of February 4th the data files are unavailable on CDC's data portal. The PLACES project combin...
jonathanstiles.net
February 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM