Ask HN: Why does the number of datasets on data.gov vary so much?

5 days (or so) ago, I remember seeing 438k, now it is 391K. What happened to the ~47K?

https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/

Is this a bug?

7 points | by akudha 11 hours ago

1 comments

toomuchtodo 11 hours ago
One should expect substantial flux of data available under the current administration.
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- SilverElfin 11 hours ago
  Does any nonprofit maintain an archive of everything?
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  - toomuchtodo 10 hours ago
    Yes.