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title: Data Lab – U.S. Treasury
excerpt: The Data Lab is a U.S. Treasury initiative to help generate public understanding of government spending through interactive data visualizations. It creates tools and visualizations that seek to answer interesting but complicated questions, and shows the power of the data available on USAspending.gov, as well as other Treasury financial data. 
description: The Data Lab is a U.S. Treasury Department initiative to publish analyses and visualizations to help the public better understand government spending.
keywords: Federal spending, data, visualizations, contracts, accounts, grants, federal programs, federal financial data
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          Your Guide to America's Finances
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             alt="Answer all your questions about federal government finance" />
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            Your Guide to America's Finances
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            Your Guide to America's Finances is an overview of federal government finances in {{site.data.object_mapping.current_fy.value}}, providing
            information on spending, revenue, the deficit, and debt. The Guide, which is created by Treasury's Data Lab,
            presents a series of interactive visualizations to allow you to explore these categories and how they have
            changed over time. Ultimately, the Guide seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of the trillions of
            dollars collected and spent by the federal government each year.
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              The Guide presents straightforward information about the federal government's spending and revenue, as
              well as the deficit and debt in {{site.data.object_mapping.current_fy.value}}.
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            Visualizing the Daily Treasury Statement
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            How much does the federal government spend each day?
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	  <a href="/homelessness-analysis.html">
	    <div class="landing-homelessness-refresh"><p class="landing-homelessness-refresh--text"><i class="fas fa-sync" id="homelessness-sync-icon"></i> The new 2019 data is here!</p></div></a>
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             ga-on="click" ga-event-category="Data Lab Home Page" ga-event-action="Clicked 'Homelessness Analyses'"
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		Homelessness Analyses
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		Explore federal programs that address homelessness
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	      On a single night in 2018, more than 550,000 people experienced homelessness in the United States. With our visualization you can explore federal spending on programs that address homelessness and where individuals experiencing homeless are located.
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	  On a single night in 2018, more than 550,000 people experienced homelessness in the United States. With our visualization you can explore federal spending on programs that address homelessness and where individuals experiencing homeless are located.
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      More Analyses
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      <a href="/colleges-and-universities.html"
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         ga-on="click" ga-event-category="Data Lab Home Page" ga-event-action="Clicked 'Federal Investment in Higher Education'"
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          Federal Investment in Higher Education
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             alt="Answer all your questions about federal investments in higher education" />
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            Federal Investment in Higher Education
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            The Federal Investment in Higher Education analysis gives an overview of federal funding in colleges and universities through grants, contracts, and student aid. This interactive analysis gives you an opportunity to search schools and discover how much the government has invested in that institution.  In the visualizations you can also break down the investment by federal agency and view data by investment category. This analysis gives the public an interactive lens into the government’s investment in higher education.
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              The Federal Investment in Higher Education analysis gives an overview of federal funding in colleges and universities. Dive in and search by individual schools, federal agencies, or investment categories!
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           ga-on="click" ga-event-category="Data Lab Home Page" ga-event-action="Clicked 'Federal Account Explorer'"
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            <h2>
              Federal Account Explorer
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              Discover the federal government's spending accounts
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              Federal Employees
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              Who works in government?
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           ga-on="click" ga-event-category="Data Lab Home Page" ga-event-action="Clicked 'Budget Function'"
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              Budget Function
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              Check out how federal spending is categorized
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           ga-on="click" ga-event-category="Data Lab Home Page" ga-event-action="Clicked 'Competition in Contracting'"
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              Competition in Contracting
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              How often do federal agencies compete for contracts?
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	    Contract Explorer
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	    Who receives federal contracts?
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	    Ever wonder who's getting federal contracts and what agencies are awarding them? This tool lets you explore contract-related information for FY18, including which organizations received federal contracts, contract amounts, awarding agencies and sub-agencies, and the types of goods or services contract recipients provided to the federal government.
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      Resources
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            Do you want
            <strong> to conduct your own analysis?</strong>
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            Access Treasury data and create your own charts and visualizations!
          </p>
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      <a class="landing-row__tile" href="http://api.usaspending.gov/">
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          <h1 class="landing-row__title landing-row__title-mod">
            API Guide
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          <p class="landing-row__p landing-row__p--hide">
            Guidance on accessing Treasury data with open source code.
          </p>
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      <a class="landing-row__tile" href="/assets/analyst-guide-1-2.pdf">
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          <h1 class="landing-row__title landing-row__title-mod">
            Analyst Guide
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            Methods to easily navigate data from our sister site, USAspending.gov.
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          <h1 class="landing-row__title landing-row__title-mod">
            Student Innovators Toolbox
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            Ways for professors and students to get involved.
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