How is SUSA different from other information providers?
SUSA will seek to address the void between an online search and professional-quality research. Search engines offer rapid access to relevant sources, but cannot yet guide users effectively past the first results. First-class research can produce high-quality answers to sophisticated questions, but it can take weeks, months or years to complete. SUSA will provide users of its website with the best available facts about vital questions in minutes to hours—and at no cost. SUSA will focus on providing the public with reliable, objective data and will seek to support, rather than compete with, existing information providers. Its key national indicators will address relevant issues, but not set goals. It will assemble information, not collect it. It will display data, but not interpret them. And it will concentrate on quantitative information, with enough qualitative explanation and context that will make the data easy to use and understand. Users of SUSA’s website will easily and quickly be
