US Gov Org Chart
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Doge.gov database left open.
Mind boggles.
So they are looking to republish information that is already public? That seems like a waste of resources, no?
But its public without the political spin DOGE is attaching to it, which is DOGE's actual "value add".
It would be more honest of Doge to say what of the 97% is to be cut, and where that will fall.
The mandatory spending is about half...
https://www.pgpf.org/article/top-10-largest-budget-functions...
Much efficiency! Many Savings! Wow.
What a dumpster fire.
1 - Hopefully this link works. It's to an OPM report built in Cognos and publicly available... https://www.fedscope.opm.gov/ibmcognos/bi/v1/disp?b_action=p...
The UX seems different enough to be more for the common person, rather than people who mangle/unmangle data for a living.
Since you've brought up UX, check out usafacts.org (mentioned on HN a few days ago). For example, a graph of the age of the federal workforce over time: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-old-is-the-federal-workfor.... Or the federal workforce size over time: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-f.... They also link back to the original raw OPM data sets.
The point stands, the data is publicly available. DOGE isn't creating some new radical transparency for the federal government. They're not even the first to reformat the data in a UX friendly manner. AFAICT all they've done is skinned it with "dark mode" and managed to put injection vulns in a .gov website.
> Somebody build a dashboard that simply replicates data already available on the OPM site
To me, that indicates that the person who wrote that, thinks that website has identical use case as to the website linked in the submission. I missed that you could add facets yourself, that is true and apologies for that, but I still see the websites as serving different audiences. One is for people who know what facets are (simplification), the other is for people who just wanna get an overview quickly, the average person lets say.
So sure, the data is available, just like rsync/scp/ftp is available one way or another on most computers, but the experience and presentation is still different.
Please don't take this as agreement with what DOGE is doing, or that I think it's a good overall idea or whatever, I'm just commenting on that the website seems very different than the website linked in the submission.
Even people who do it for a living would appreciate not having to do work for no pay after a long day at work just to look at where their taxpayer dollars are going.
... compiled by, you know, the 40% of government employees DOGE has asked agencies to report as non-essential?
Having said that, I am very much worried about the direction the US is heading. I came to the US for college and eventually end up being a permanent resident. My home country, Myanmar (Burma), has been ruled by military dictatorship for decades, and I see a lot of parallels in terms of disregard for rule of law; cult of personality; silencing free speech and journalists/reporting agencies that disagree with your point of view; etc. Add musk's chaotic way of meddling with the (albeit inefficient) government machine, not looking good at all.
I will admit, this administration is great at flooding the zone and making big splashes over trivial tasks. It's kind of like removing the muffler from your Civic, it'll sound like a sports car but it's still a Civic.
> Receipts coming soon, no later than Valentine's day
Today is February 14th :)
https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-...
If you're going to take apart democracy, have some goddamn professional pride.
These people are not chosen based on their skill or experience, but most likely by loyalty or some other similar metric. It's literally the fascist playbook updated for modern times, for when you want to dismantle institutions.
> This is DOGE's effort to create a comprehensive, government-wide org chart.
What's the logic behind these exclusions? They just haven't gotten there yet?