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Thursday, 1st October 2009

Recovery Board Unveils Makeover of Stimulus Spending Web Site

From the Article:

Government-appointed watchdogs debuted on Monday the much-anticipated overhaul of Recovery.gov, featuring sophisticated pictorial representations of spending data, advanced search functions, multimedia tutorials and some downloads.

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The financial data that is available on the site comes from the Federal Procurement Data System and USASpending.gov, a database containing federal contracts and loans, and weekly financial activity reports from agencies. The recipient data will be fed from FederalReporting.gov, an online inbox through which companies, nonprofits and states will submit quarterly spending reports beginning Oct. 1.

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The site offers translations in more than 50 languages, a handful of tutorials, basic and advanced mapping capabilities and feeds from the Federal Business Opportunities Web site and the application site Grants.gov.

Visitors can enter their ZIP codes into a text box on Recovery.gov's home page to view street maps and aerial views of the locations of the projects in their neighborhoods. Colored maps indicate the concentration of contracts that have been awarded in a certain locale by the intensity of color.

Currently, the site does not have the ability to let users search pages by contractor name, although officials plan to make that functionality available in a couple of months.

Much More in the Article About What's Planned for the Site in the Future

Access Recovery.gov

Source: Nextgov.com

See Also: A Review of the New Site from the Sunlight Labs Blog

See Also: Retooled Recovery.gov site praised, panned (via FCW)


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