Over the last few years I’ve published about a dozen random datasets. They’ve all been posted on Socrata’s OpenData portal, which recently came to the absurd conclusion that making profile pages private was the best way to combat spam (and didn’t bother to tell anyone beforehand).
Just like the state employee salaries I scraped and posted last week, today I’ve posted the local governments in the Midlands area version.
Each year The State newspaper submits FOIA requests to all state agencies and compiles a database containing salaries of all employees making at least $50,000. This data is then made freely available through a useable but fairly crappy little web interface provided by Caspio.
The adapter I’ve been using for my iPod in the car for years developed a short a few weeks ago and I haven’t been able to find a similar model to replace it yet, so I’ve been using an old Griffin FM transmitter instead. It’s not great and I frequently hit dead zones where there’s interference - either from a real radio station, another car transmitter, or just normal interference that overpowers the tiny iPod accessory.
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