Democratizing Access to Education Data
summary
The Urban Institute publishes the Education Data Portal: a harmonized one‑stop of nearly all major federal K–12 and college datasets with a language‑agnostic API (about 110 API endpoints plus a dozen metadata endpoints), human‑and‑machine readable documentation, and client tools including an R package called get_education_data, a forthcoming Python package, Stata exports and a web data explorer. The system filters rows/columns to avoid massive CSV downloads and serves roughly 4,000 monthly users.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to the portal
- 1:03Bridging data gaps
- 2:08The challenge of manual data
- 3:28Tedious workflows
- 5:02Accessible tooling
- 7:11API infrastructure
- 9:55Data documentation
- 12:47Collaborative development
- 14:40Impact and conclusion
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