A small but growing collection of companies has formed a coalition that will push the federal government to establish a standard system by which agencies categorize their data. Today’s official opening of the District-based Data Transparency Coalition rides on the heels of the Obama administration’s announcement last month that six agencies will commit $200 million to projects that help them better analyze their information. “Our members understand that if the government identified its data elements in consistent ways, there would be vast new opportunities for the tools that they are building,” Executive Director Hudson Hollister said. Multiple methods of classifying...