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DOR's exploration of interactive data visualization continues. The latest is this cool tax explorer that helps a citizen or company explore tax rates across the country and how ours compare.

Here's the DOR page: link

Here's the visualization itself:

The Secretary of State publishes a searchable database of all the corporations in Washington with their UBI, registered agent, profit/nonprofit status etc. Very cool. They also offer a downloadable flat file in either XML or tab-separated format. It's a big file though -- about a gigabyte.

Here's what a sample set of the database looks like in data.wa.gov:

Public gatherings and crowded places are increasingly vulnerable to attacks because of their relative accessibility and the large number of people who gather together. Organizations of all types including businesses, critical infrastructure owners and operators, the general public, schools and houses of worship face a variety of security risks.

To help organizations…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other national groups are urging organizations to take preventative action to protect themselves against a surge of ransomware attacks.

Local governments across the United States and overseas have been hit in recent weeks. Louisiana declared a state of emergency July 24 after three school systems were attacked with…

The FCC's 2015 Broadband Progress Report includes an interactive map visualization of areas in the country where residents don't have access to broadband -- using the FCC's new(ish) broadband speed standard of 25 megabits download and 3 megabits upload.