From the website:
Numbrary is a free online service dedicated to finding, using and sharing numbers on the web.
With 26,475 data tables from the US Department of Labor, I get to Producer Price Indexes (3428 items) and then to Commodities (WPU 101) and there is very nice access to the underlying data:
http://numbrary.com/sources/10d891fc1320-produce-price-index-commodi.
Except that I don’t know how that should (could?) be reconciled with other data? Or what “other” data that would be, save for “See Also” on the webpage, but I don’t know why I should see that data as well.
Beyond just my lack of experience with economic data, this may illustrate something about “transparency” in government.
Can a government be said to be “transparent” if it provides data that is no more “transparent” to voters than the lack of data?
What burden does it have to make data more than simply accessible, but also meaningful? (I am mindful of the credit disclosure laws that provided foot faults for those wishing to pursue members of the credit industry but that did not credit rate disclosures meaningful.)
Still, a useful source of data that I commend to your attention.