Lies, damned lies, and statistics, goes the saying--and here's another one: data, open data, and transparency.My reason for saying so stems from a recent look FierceGovernmentIT took at the White House visitor logs of Steven VanRoekel, the Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and information technology--aka the federal chief information officer.That the White House decided in 2009 to post online its visitor logs was admirable; it was a harbinger of a push to make government data available to the public, the only part of an effort to make the federal government more transparent that appears to have any enthusiasm left