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If anyone would like to see, use or contribute to the code we used to build the Dashboard, we're on GitHub: https://github.com/GSA/analytics.usa.gov

And also open-sourced the adapter we use to get the data out of Google Analytics and into a nice clean JSON API for our client-side static app to consume:

https://github.com/18F/analytics-reporter

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There was a bit of a kerfuffle around Healthcare.gov sending data to analytics services (despite that being industry standard practice), so I'm curious if there's any push to ditch Google Analytics, etc., for .gov, and move analytics services in-house.

Can you be more specific about what you mean by "kerfuffle"? This is the same healthcare.gov that was/is sending PHI data to 3rd parties analytics and ad services (doubleclick, etc)?

Man I love the fact that you guys continuously contribute to this community. I hope whatever you are doing spread to other parts of the government. I really enjoy seeing the government engage the community in this way.

clap clap clap. Keep up the great work.

JFYI, under operating systems, "Macintosh" should be "OS X". Macs are the hardware, OS X is the operating system that runs on the hardware. :)

Also, Apple hasn't called their product line "Macintosh" for over fifteen years. It's an anachronism as blatant as replacing Windows with "IBM PC".

Very nice, open-source FTW.

Everything we do at 18F is open source, usually as public domain. Interested in working on this stuff? Come work with us: https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/02/25/We-Are-Hiring/

what's the difference between 18F and USDS? i applied to USDS and never got a reply.

So did I, months ago. No reply.

Here's an article that describes the difference:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/08/11...

404 on the link to the 1,350 domains: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/gov-domains-api

Should be fixed momentarily, if it's not already. Thanks for pointing that out!

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