The US government’s data portal now offers more than 231,000 datasets, and even these are only a fraction of the data resources available through US federal, state and local governments. Each source listed on the portal includes descriptive information, including the name of the source agency, metadata, and a contact for more information – usually a specific, named contact person. Sometimes, though, you just want a sense of what’s available and what can be done with it. So here’s a kind of bestsellers list for data, the top ten data offerings available to the public on data.gov, as of today, January 27, 2017. 1) ZIP Code DataSource: Department of the TreasuryWhat’s here: Tax return data organized by state and zip code.

Source: Forbes January 27, 2018 18:45 UTC