“‘I would like citizens to be able to use this to form intelligent opinions. People can disagree about what to do — I’m not going to tell people what to do.’ But, he said, people ought to base their opinions ‘on common data sets that are believable.'” Only in today’s America could that idea sound revolutionary. How does Steve Ballmer hope to enable it? He just released a massive trove of data that will make it easier for Americans to know exactly what government does with their money. The NYT’s Andrew Ross Sorkin on Steve Ballmer’s big project. Even the few examples in this article will surprise you…