Guest blog: Announcing the Open-Source beaR Library

<blockquote class="twitter-video" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Hey, R programmers! The beaR library is coming soon to help you search and visualize BEA’s economic data.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WHOpenData?src=hash">#WHOpenData</a> <a href="https://t.co/zSv4TRs101">https://t.co/zSv4TRs101</a> <a href="https://t.co/zRaeBL2hwP">pic.twitter.com/zRaeBL2hwP</a></p>&mdash; BEA News (@BEA_News) <a href="https://twitter.com/BEA_News/status/781210753265180673">September 28, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This is a guest blog by Justin Antonipillai – Counselor to Secretary Penny Pritzker, with the Delegated Duties of the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs
Open data is core to President Obama’s leadership and legacy with the most transparent and data-driven government in history. Today, September 28, 2016, the White House, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the General Services Administration (GSA) and the Data Foundation are hosting the first-ever White House Open Data Innovation Summit to showcase open data solutions and data-driven innovations at all scales of government.

At Commerce we understand the importance of data as a valuable national resource and a strategic asset to the U.S. government and its citizens. We are working diligently to develop new tools to make our data more open, accessible and easier to consume for data scientists, data journalists, statisticians and others.
To that end, I am pleased to announce the beaR Library, a new open-source tool developed with the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) for users of the R programming language.
For those of you not familiar with R, it is an open-source programming language and one of the most popular tools in data science today. Over the last 20 years, statisticians from all parts of the world have contributed their innovations to open source R. These contributions mean that developers have access to a large library of cutting-edge scientific algorithms that make it possible to rapidly build intelligent analytic applications.
Read more >> https://blog.bea.gov/2016/09/28/guest-blog-white-house-open-data-innovation-summit/