Yes, I did click on the link and the source is a company called Graphic Publishing a semantic technology company.
So, once again, I ask if these are real because the Obama era documents are offline.
"Today, the Web-based interface for the archive of the Obama White House’s visitor logs hosted by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is gone. The embedded Web application, which was provided by Seattle-based Socrata, is now a broken plug-in. The logs are still available as open government data on the Obama White House archive, compressed into ZIP files that expand into comma-separated value data sets. If you have Excel or can set up a database, you can search through them. (Google Spreadsheets and Apple Pages can’t handle a million row data set.)
Given the continued availability of the open data on the page, we have not added this to our list of data removed from the Internet, but the change is still significant. What’s now missing reduces the accessibility of this open data for non-technical users. It’s no longer possible to simply visit a Web page, enter in the name of an individual and see when he or she visited the White House, who was visited, and when. You have to download the data to do so. In practice, this represents a reduction in government transparency."
And that is why I included the link. For people to judge for themselves.
I don't use the WH site much and Gargle gave me the result. If they used the same software for WH as they did for ACA, then one would expect a poorer quality website.
Thanks for pointing out the difference. :) it helps others learn to discern better as well.
Can you run through the databases and see if these numbers are correct?
No, it's not possible because they are not available. Do to the official link on Obama's White House Government page and you will see that 2015 and 2016 are not available.
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seekingpeace ago
Are these logs correct? I ask because the White House no longer gives the public access to the visitor logs. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/us/politics/visitor-log-white-house-trump.html?_r=0
Littleredcorvette ago
That would have been more efficient than digging up a month-old slanted news story to influence people.
seekingpeace ago
Yes, I did click on the link and the source is a company called Graphic Publishing a semantic technology company.
So, once again, I ask if these are real because the Obama era documents are offline.
"Today, the Web-based interface for the archive of the Obama White House’s visitor logs hosted by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is gone. The embedded Web application, which was provided by Seattle-based Socrata, is now a broken plug-in. The logs are still available as open government data on the Obama White House archive, compressed into ZIP files that expand into comma-separated value data sets. If you have Excel or can set up a database, you can search through them. (Google Spreadsheets and Apple Pages can’t handle a million row data set.)
Given the continued availability of the open data on the page, we have not added this to our list of data removed from the Internet, but the change is still significant. What’s now missing reduces the accessibility of this open data for non-technical users. It’s no longer possible to simply visit a Web page, enter in the name of an individual and see when he or she visited the White House, who was visited, and when. You have to download the data to do so. In practice, this represents a reduction in government transparency."
https://sunlightfoundation.com/2017/02/17/online-search-for-obama-era-white-house-visitor-logs-goes-offline/
Littleredcorvette ago
And that is why I included the link. For people to judge for themselves.
I don't use the WH site much and Gargle gave me the result. If they used the same software for WH as they did for ACA, then one would expect a poorer quality website.
Thanks for pointing out the difference. :) it helps others learn to discern better as well.
Can you run through the databases and see if these numbers are correct?
seekingpeace ago
No, it's not possible because they are not available. Do to the official link on Obama's White House Government page and you will see that 2015 and 2016 are not available.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/goodgovernment/tools/visitor-records#ethics-menu