Data Doughnut

What you get

See what’s inside each desk.

Each desk is a set of pages built for one kind of work: maps, ranked lists, and plain-English write-ups made from public government data. These pictures are real screens from the site.

In every desk

The same plain, clickable pages, whichever desk you pick.

Plain English

We translate agency codes into everyday words. No data degree needed.

Sources on every page

Each page says which agency the numbers came from and how current they are.

Watch anything

Star a building, county, bill, rule, or grant. When it changes, it shows up on your account page and in a weekly email.

My places

Upload your list of buildings, loans, or addresses once, and every desk can narrow down to just them.

Meeting packets

One printable page about any county or building, put in the order your audience cares about.

Connect your AI

At Level 3, ask Claude or Grok questions and get answers from our data, with the sources named.

What's changed at the things you watch, on your account page
What's changed at the things you watch, on your account page

Region Brief

Profile any county, metro, or state — and see how it compares

For: Economic developers, planners, chambers, consultants, and grant writers

A board meeting, grant application, or site proposal needs a clear profile of a place, but the facts are spread across dozens of government files — and nobody knows which places to compare against.

Standout features

  • A dossier for any county
  • Neighborhood hardship score
  • Meeting packets
  • Maps you can click
A dossier for any county
A dossier for any county — Everything you'd pull together for a grant or a site visit — people, jobs, health care, housing, and disasters — already on one page, with the source for every number.

CareSite Ops

See which nursing homes need help first

For: People who run or oversee nursing homes

Staffing gaps, empty beds, and inspection problems are hard to spot when they're buried in long reports.

Standout features

  • My buildings
  • Risk watchlist
  • One page per building
  • Weather and your buildings
  • Compare chains
  • Developmental disability homes
My buildings
My buildings — Your homes with what changed in CMS's newest file, who's due for a state inspection, staffing, and new citations — worst first.

Health Markets

See which areas are growing and where care is thin

For: Hospital and health system leaders

Facts about patients, competitors, and costs are scattered, so it's hard to compare one area to another.

Standout features

  • Community Health Needs Assessment
  • Community surveys with QR codes
  • Where disease outruns care
  • Money and rules
  • Medicare spending and use
  • Hospitals under pressure
Community Health Needs Assessment
Community Health Needs Assessment — Your community, drawn from where your patients actually live, with its health needs ranked against the state and the U.S. It's the data half of the report the IRS requires of nonprofit hospitals every three years.

Health Care Loans & Sales

See the buildings, deals, and operators behind care-facility loans and sales

For: Lenders, buyers, and brokers who finance or trade care facilities

Loan records, owner names, and facility quality all sit in different places, so it's hard to see the full picture.

Standout features

  • Start with your deal
  • The underwriting packet
  • Every report in one place
  • My loans
  • Assisted living loans
  • The whole HUD loan book
  • Operator track record
  • Building finances
  • Who bought what
  • Care problems to check
Start with your deal
Start with your deal — Type a building, an FHA number, a Medicare ID or a city and go straight to its underwriting packet.

Business & Site Planning

Size up a place for a business

For: Small business owners and economic developers

Facts about customers, workers, wages, competition, loans, and costs are on a dozen different agency websites, so understanding a place takes weeks.

Standout features

  • Business dynamics
  • SBA loans and lenders
  • Three simple steps
  • Compare markets
  • Build a ZIP list
  • Rent and need, side by side
Business dynamics
Business dynamics — New business applications, businesses opening and closing, how big the economy is and what carries it, and how many people work for themselves — for any county.

Disaster Readiness

See which hazards threaten a place, who needs help, and how ready it is

For: Emergency managers, planners, local officials, insurers, lenders, and care operators

Planning for floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, heat, and winter storms means pulling FEMA risk ratings, storm history, and who lives where from different agencies, usually right before you need them.

Standout features

  • 1 · Know the risk
  • 2 · Who's exposed
  • 3 · During an event
  • 4 · People & resources
  • 5 · Plan & drill
  • Area study
  • Care buildings in harm's way
  • Staging sites
1 · Know the risk
1 · Know the risk — Pick your place on the map: FEMA risk and expected losses by hazard, what actually hit, declarations, and how the risk is changing — summer heat and drought since 1895, heat days, smoke days, wildfires, crop losses. Prints as your plan's risk section.

Rural Development

See how a rural place is doing, what it qualifies for, and where the money is

For: Economic developers, grant writers, rural hospitals and clinics, co-ops, community foundations, and local officials

Rural work runs on eligibility rules and grant deadlines spread across USDA, HRSA, Treasury, and dozens of agencies, and on county facts that are hard to line up. It takes days to answer "do we qualify, and who got money for this before?"

Standout features

  • Rural profile
  • Grants that fit
  • Every rural county in a state
Rural profile
Rural profile — What kind of place it is, its official rural labels, and its story in plain words — ready to drop into a grant application.

Legislative

See what laws and rules are changing, and who decides

For: Anyone affected by what Congress and federal agencies decide

New laws and federal rules can change how you do business, but they are buried in thousands of pages, and the chance to comment is easy to miss.

Standout features

  • What's changing now
  • State bills
  • Who represents a ZIP code
  • Your state's delegation
What's changing now
What's changing now — Rules taking effect, comment deadlines about to close, and bills that just moved — all in one list.

Farm & Food Markets

See which food categories are about to get more expensive, and why

For: Food buyers, grocers, restaurants, food makers, ag lenders, co-ops, and farm-county economic developers

Food price jumps — eggs in 2024–25, beef this year — show up first in farm supply, farm and wholesale prices, and USDA's forecasts — spread across a dozen USDA and BLS reports nobody has time to watch every week.

Standout features

  • Repricing watch
  • Every food category side by side
  • Farm counties
Repricing watch
Repricing watch — Every food category on one screen — store price, farm and wholesale price, supply, and USDA's forecast — flagged when the warning signs line up.

Second Look

Line up public records from different agencies and see where they don't match

For: Reporters, auditors, inspectors general, grant and safety reviewers, and anyone who follows public money

Each agency keeps its own records. A trucking company tells FMCSA it has one truck, while roadside inspectors see hundreds under its number. Federal money lands at addresses shared by dozens of groups. Nobody lines the records up side by side.

Standout features

  • Registered fleet vs. trucks seen
  • Where its trucks came from and went
  • Follow the money
Registered fleet vs. trucks seen
Registered fleet vs. trucks seen — Trucking companies whose registration and roadside inspections don't match, with the agency facts side by side.

Pick a level

Read it, ask it, or take it with you.

Every desk comes in three levels. You choose your desks, then the level.

Ask in plain words and get an answer from the data, with the sources named
Ask in plain words and get an answer from the data, with the sources named
Level 1 · Read

All the pages, maps, and lists in your desks, plus Help to find anything.

Level 2 · Read + Ask

Everything in Level 1, plus ask questions in plain English and get answers from the data.

Level 3 · Full access

Everything in Level 2, plus spreadsheet links, downloads, and AI assistant access for the data in your desks. See AI & spreadsheets.

Find the desk that fits your work

Start with one desk and add more later. Want to see the raw sources first? Browse the catalog. No account needed.