#JSM2018 Richard Coffin from USAFacts up next. USAFacts - mission: make government spending data useful and accessible. Create a 10-K for government.
#JSM2018 Coffin Organize all Federal, state and local revenue and spending in categories, link to outcomes
#JSM2018 Coffin Goals for their Data 
#JSM2018 Coffin People want Data, but navigating government data websites is hard. Lots of formats, inconsistent estimates. People want relevant data. Spreadsheets are not sexy. ... They did a poll - methods statement not given in talk. :)
#JSM2018 Coffin Journalists don’t have time to learn data. Need both the story and the details. What is needed is both interesting and correct, but this is hard
#JSM2018 Coffin Barriers to improving government data related to dispersion of data users. Education is top topic of SOTU but only 2% of spending
