**A wake-up call for America to create a new framework for democratizing data.** Public data are foundational to our democratic system. People need consistently high-quality information from trustworthy sources. In the new economy, wealth is generated by access to data; government’s job is to democratize the data playing field. Yet data produced by the American government are getting worse and costing more. In *Democratizing Our Data* , Julia Lane argues that good data are essential for democracy. Her book is a wake-up call to America to fix its broken public data system.