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February 6, 2015 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

Opened only last year, Data Store is ProPublica open source tool offered free to public investigators

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ProPublica is making available the datasets that power our data journalism. The raw data we received as the result of a FOIA request is available for free, and datasets that reflect substantial cleaning and processing by our staff are available for a one-time fee. Journalists and academic researchers can purchase premium datasets, and interested commercial users can contact us for pricing, by clicking the “Purchase” button on any dataset. We also provide a pass-through link when a data download is available on another site.

One Year, 2,000+ Downloads: Here’s How Our Data Store Is Doing

ProPublica’s Data Store opened for business nearly a year ago. Our two goals when we launched were to centralize and help people make better sense of the free datasets we make available, and to generate some income to help defray the costs of cleaning and analyzing our data. We’d like to share some news about how…

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