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About
What this is
A reference work assembled from official government releases. Every figure shows the agency that published it, the date it takes effect, and the licence it carries — and downloads as CSV with all of that attached.
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Where it stands
Two categories carry real data. Three are scoped but empty, and say so on their own pages rather than being hidden from the navigation.
Hospitals
5,419
Federal agencies
111
Geographies
3,291
Spending data points
33,332
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What it will not do
- Invent a figure. Nothing is interpolated, smoothed or filled in. A missing measure renders as an em dash.
- Publish a thin page. A record below 0.55 on data completeness carries noindex and stays out of the sitemap.
- Quote a rank without its ties. 384 hospitals hold a five-star CMS rating. Telling each of them it ranks first is true of the sort order and false of the world.
- Bury the source. Agency, dataset, vintage and licence appear on every page that uses them, not on this one.
- Break a URL. Slugs are permanent; renames redirect forever.
- Overwrite good data with bad. A release that fails validation writes nothing and the previous version keeps serving.
- Generate prose. Summary sentences are conditional templates filled from the figures on the same page.
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How it is built
Connectors read from each agency’s own API or bulk file, validate the release, and write to sharded SQLite databases at the edge. Pages are server-rendered and cached; an entity route ships around 2 KB of its own JavaScript because there is no chart library — every mark is SVG the server already knows how to draw.
Adding a category means writing one connector file. It does not mean touching a template.
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