The Women Saving America’s Climate Data

A couple weeks after Donald Trump was elected president for the second time, a group of federal data-watchers gathered in Denice Ross’ dining room.

As chief U.S. data scientist under the Biden Administration, Ross had a clear window into just how much information the government collects—and just how useful it is: whether monitoring a fleet of ocean buoys that help guide safe shipping routes to tracking how vulnerable communities are to disaster.

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Over the course of that evening...