Show HN: The Public Tab – See every federal dollar flowing through your district

Category: other

Tags: government-data, spending-transparency, data-journalism, anomaly-detection, public-accountability

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 6, Utility: 8)

The Public Tab is a web platform that aggregates, analyzes, and visualizes U.S. federal spending data, connecting contracts and grants to congressional districts, lobbying activities, and anomaly detection. It's interesting because it synthesizes multiple complex public datasets (USAspending.gov, Congress.gov, LDA.gov) into a coherent investigative tool with a scoring model to flag suspicious awards, serving transparency and oversight.

Target audience: journalists, researchers, oversight-orgs, watchdog-groups, contractors, policy-analysts

Repository: https://thepublictab.com/

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