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FCC Slowly Revamping Website, Data Access
Peruse historically inaccurate data more easily!
by Karl Bode Tuesday 07-Sep-2010 tags: fcc · business · stats
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One consistent criticism of the FCC (including by the GAO) is that the agency makes policy decisions based on inaccurate data, something that's slowly changing. Another major criticism is that the FCC's web site is stuck somewhere around 1996 in terms of both ease of use and data accessibility. To that end, the FCC today announced that they're revamping the website through a suite of online tools and APIs the FCC says will make it easier to access and peruse agency data. The agency also launched a new developer website for those eager to help craft new tools for sifting through agency data, including data gleaned from the FCC's recently launched FCC Consumer Broadband Speed Test. A full FCC.gov redesign is expected before the end of the year.

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Some clever BBR staffer write pgm mine FCC test data?

Maybe some clever BBR staffer could write a tool using the FCC broadband speed test API that would allow BBR users to interrogate the speed test data based on location.

»reboot.fcc.gov/developer/consume···test-api
This data is calculated nightly and includes all tests to date performed through the consumer broadband test.

That would be a great addition to the BBR tool chest:
»/tools

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Revamping a pile of $hit

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The present day FCC website
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The Revamped FCC Website
These are Coprolites, fossilized turds, about 45 million years old which I think is a fitting symbol of just how fossilized the FCC is.

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