Washington state agencies post a wide variety of structured data on their websites as Excel downloads. You can find them all using the Access Washington federated search. By my count there are currently over 10,000 such tables. Individual downloads are great, but when agencies post tables in an open data portal like data.wa.gov or geography.wa.gov the underlying data can be retrieved in a…
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Dear Washingtonians!
I was excited to see Whatcom Community College (WCC) in Bellingham featured at a recent cybersecurity conference held by the White House in Washington D.C.
The college's National Cybersecurity Training and Education Center (NCyTE) was recognized by the White House for the work it's doing to increase the number of people pursuing careers in cybersecurity.…
Tax season is in full swing and criminals are going to great lengths to steal your identity and tax refund.
Scams include fake websites and tax forms that look like they belong to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in order to trick you into providing your personal information.
You should always take steps to minimize your risk of identity theft and other online-related crimes…
For a recent meeting I put together a step-by-step stroll through the mapping and sharing features of data.wa.gov.
We start with this map as a starting point:
https://data.wa.gov/Economics/Broadband-Community-Anchor-Institutions/5zkj-79xx
From there we drill down into the source dataset:
https://data.wa.gov/Economics/Broadband-…
I'm trying out a new presentation application for my presentation in Bremerton - Sway, a web-native show that pulls together images, stories and embedded code in one spot.
Here's the Sway version of my presentation: https://sway.com/JBEaeBrIQW4qBvFE