5 Mar
2003
5 Mar
'03
1:25 p.m.
The embargoed data are available to the SDCs and BIDCs at the same time as
to the press (or maybe one day earlier, at one point it was supposed to
work that way). The logic IS to give the public sector data analysts a
chance to look at data and be prepared when it hits the media. I've
noticed that many of the comments/questions here are coming from regional
planning groups; I would have thought they would be part of their State
Data Center Network?
(FWIW, we in Illinois SDC did have this opportunity but I had no time and
tramnsportation isn't reallty my thing:-)
Jim Bash
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tom Reinauer wrote:
I'd like to know why this embargo idea makes any
sense. I also wind up
trying to answer questions from the media prior to having any information,
and then spend the next few weeks answering questions from various
organizations in order to clarify articles or statements in articles that
are not statistically correct or accurate. Would it make too much sense to
release the data to the official "data centers" first, so that we can have a
chance to look at the data prior to the media spin?