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It’s time to vote again for federal office, though this time you get to choose your favorite new web application that makes government data useful.
The three final candidates in the Apps for America 2 contest?
DataMasher.org is a point-and-click mashup map maker that lets you can plot federal data on a map, for instance high school graduation rates and teen birth rates combined to rank what states are healthiest for teens.
GovPulse.us is a customized smart browser for the Federal Register, the government’s newspaper which citizens never read — in no small part because it lacked any form.
And finally there’s a site called ThisWeKnow.org that shows you what the feds know about your city — from cancer rates to population growth.
Cast your vote (with your Sunlight Labs credentials) here.
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Source: Ryan Singel
