data.gov is live!

For those of you interested in government datasets and an invitation to play and shape the future of publicly available government data, your day has arrived!

From the main page of data.gov:

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although the initial launch of Data.gov provides a limited portion of the rich variety of Federal datasets presently available, we invite you to actively participate in shaping the future of Data.gov by suggesting additional datasets and site enhancements to provide seamless access and use of your Federal data. Visit today with us, but come back often. With your help, Data.gov will continue to grow and change in the weeks, months, and years ahead.

This is huge! The fact that the data is machine readable is even better! I'm really excited to see the kinds of data visualizations that come out of this, as well as the new data sets that citizens request.