Since you've brought up UX, check out usafacts.org (mentioned on HN a few days ago). For example, a graph of the age of the federal workforce over time: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-old-is-the-federal-workfor.... Or the federal workforce size over time: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-f.... They also link back to the original raw OPM data sets.

The point stands, the data is publicly available. DOGE isn't creating some new radical transparency for the federal government. They're not even the first to reformat the data in a UX friendly manner. AFAICT all they've done is skinned it with "dark mode" and managed to put injection vulns in a .gov website.

> Somebody build a dashboard that simply replicates data already available on the OPM site

To me, that indicates that the person who wrote that, thinks that website has identical use case as to the website linked in the submission. I missed that you could add facets yourself, that is true and apologies for that, but I still see the websites as serving different audiences. One is for people who know what facets are (simplification), the other is for people who just wanna get an overview quickly, the average person lets say.

So sure, the data is available, just like rsync/scp/ftp is available one way or another on most computers, but the experience and presentation is still different.

Please don't take this as agreement with what DOGE is doing, or that I think it's a good overall idea or whatever, I'm just commenting on that the website seems very different than the website linked in the submission.

Even people who do it for a living would appreciate not having to do work for no pay after a long day at work just to look at where their taxpayer dollars are going.