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The TTS Handbook: A 21st-century approach to internal documentation
on July 27, 2021
In this post, we introduce the Technology Transformation Services Handbook: an open, crowd-sourced, accessible, and living resource that aims to provide the information our team needs to do their work.
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The case for open source software
on July 12, 2018
Software is everywhere at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Much of their software portfolio is open source. They began releasing software in the 1990s — long before the Federal Source Code Policy required government institutions to make their code available to each other and to release at least 20 percent to the public.
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TTS projects forward Open Government Partnership principles
on December 15, 2016
The U.S. Open Government National Action Plans promote the Open Government Partnership’s principles of transparency, facilitating access to government services for the public, and citizen engagement. 18F has worked with several agencies to advance the these goals through projects like DATA Act, eRegulations, USEITI, College Scorecard, and the Public Participation Playbook.
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Emanuel Feld talks about his visualization of government GitHub organizations
on June 16, 2016
What does the global government open source community look like? That’s the question that Emanuel Feld, a civic technologist in Washington DC, wanted to answer when he created a visualization showing how government repos on GitHub are connected and interrelated.
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Tips for adapting analytics.usa.gov from Tennessee, Boulder, and Philadelphia
on January 6, 2016
The city of Philadelphia, the city of Boulder, and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation have all adapted analytics.usa.gov for their own use. We recently talked to them about how they adapted the platform and what advice they’d have for others who'd like to do the same.
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What exactly do we even do all day?
on December 7, 2015
We've always been open about our code, but we decided to experiment with being open with our project management as well. We've opened up the Trello board for a project we're working on with the Environmental Protection Agency to the public, and the results have been fantastic.
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analytics.usa.gov: New features and more data
on December 2, 2015
We’ve recently added a few new features to analytics.usa.gov: location data, download data, and expanded downloadable files.
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Welcome to betaFEC: campaign finance for everyone
on October 29, 2015
As the 2016 presidential election heats up, here at 18F we’ve been working with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to make campaign finance data more accessible to the public. Today, we launched betaFEC, the first piece in a complete redesign of the FEC’s online presence. We were excited to work on a project that allowed us to delve into intricate campaign finance data, plain language, and the FEC’s first API.
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67 million more Federal Election Commission records at your fingertips
on July 15, 2015
The OpenFEC API added a filings endpoint as well as itemized receipt and disbursement data. This is the first major update to the API: The records we’re adding today are the meat and potatoes of campaign finance. You can see in detail where a campaign’s money comes from and where they spend their money.
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How DATA Act implementation is opening up federal spending
on June 9, 2015
In May 2014, President Obama signed the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) into law. Once implemented, the DATA Act will make it easier to understand how the federal government spends money.
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How we built analytics.usa.gov
on March 19, 2015
The U.S. federal government now has a public dashboard and dataset for its web traffic, at analytics.usa.gov. 18F worked with the Digital Analytics Program, the U.S. Digital Service, and the White House to build and host the dashboard. Read on to learn about how the dashboard works, the engineering choices we made, and the open source work we produced along the way.
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Sunshine week: extractive industries transparency initiative event
on March 18, 2015
Today, 18F joins the Departments of the Interior and State at General Assembly DC to and the progress we made together in shedding light on public data. The event starts at noon and if you can’t attend, follow on Twitter where 18F teammate Nick Bristow will be live tweeting the event.
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A complete list of .gov domains
on December 18, 2014
We're happy to say that the .gov registry is now releasing the entire set of 5,300 .gov domains, including those outside of the federal executive branch.
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