Trump Administration Leaves Behind Ghost Data Sets

Some people celebrated Halloween last Friday. Other people worked on a different important project that day. A group of data experts made a list of lost datasets.

The list's release on Halloween was maybe funny. But the real reason was very serious and important. It showed how the Trump government changed important federal data.

The experts divided the datasets into different groups. Some datasets were stopped, and some were changed. Others were made harder to find, or moved to new places.

The scientists said some news was good. Not too many datasets were fully stopped forever. This was out of many, many datasets made by the government.

But the scientists said the data is still not safe. Many workers lost their jobs because of cost cuts. Data that shows the government in a bad way is at risk.