The Government May Have Made the Greatest GIF of All Time
The U.S. Census Bureau, winning the Internet -- and our hearts -- with the data ferret.
. The website is similarly Nineties-tastic. It has a PowerPoint about Data F.E.R.R.E.T.T.,
. It also has a ferret wearing a Sherlock Holmes hat.
The U.S. Census Bureau works with a lot of data. That makes sense, because they have a lot of data! So they need a tool to collate it, organize it, sort through it, sniff through it… a weasel-like tool… a…
F ederated E lectronic R esearch R eview E xtraction and T abulation T ool.
A Data F.E.R.R.E.T.T. Data F.E.R.R.E.T.T. is the tool you use to sort through US Census data. To advertise it, the Census Bureau has a data ferret GIF:
It has a website, too:
dataferrett.census.gov which are presented as imagesRead the full story at TheAtlantic.com.