Data Sources

I thought this riveting post on the New York Times Bits blog about…

Facebook logs and saves a lot of data about you and what you…

Mostly because of the popularity of smartphones, location data is all the rage…

Census data can provide valuable information, but the datasets are not always the…

Jonathan Stark, a mobile application consultant, is running an interesting social experiment with…

The Pew Research churns out a lot of interesting results from a number…

Researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden have found that the iPhone records cell…

Last week, there were rumblings over the end of the Statistical Abstract, and…

Not many people understand the importance of data privacy. They don’t get out…

The government has been making a big push for more open health-related data,…

Need music data? Get all the data you want and more from the…

Sunlight Labs continues its work for a more open government with its recent…

Add another online destination to find the data that you need. DataMarket launched…

Data is rarely in the format you want it. Dan Nguyen, for ProPublica,…

You’ve probably already heard and read about Wikileaks’ Cablegate. If not, Andy Baio…

Mozilla Labs just released a bunch of anonymized browsing data for their open…

Last week I found out that the FDA has a feed for all…

Vivek Wadhwa talks government data and the (financial) opportunities ripe for the picking:…

Private browsing. All the modern browsers have it. Turn it on, and the…

Weather in the private sector is over a $1.5 billion industry, and it’s…