I thought this riveting post on the New York Times Bits blog about…
Data Sources
Have fun and play with some numbers.
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Texting on the toilet
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What Facebook knows about you
Facebook logs and saves a lot of data about you and what you…
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Geo API from Infochimps brings you closer to mapping fun
Mostly because of the popularity of smartphones, location data is all the rage…
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Reporters make it easier to access Census data
Census data can provide valuable information, but the datasets are not always the…
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Get a coffee, give a coffee API
Jonathan Stark, a mobile application consultant, is running an interesting social experiment with…
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Pew Research raw survey data now available
The Pew Research churns out a lot of interesting results from a number…
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Map your location – that your iPhone secretly records
Researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden have found that the iPhone records cell…
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Data.gov and other transparency sites to be shut down due to budget cuts
Last week, there were rumblings over the end of the Statistical Abstract, and…
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Tell-all telephone reveals politician’s life
Not many people understand the importance of data privacy. They don’t get out…
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Lots of health data released via Health Indicators Warehouse
The government has been making a big push for more open health-related data,…
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Million song dataset available for download
Need music data? Get all the data you want and more from the…
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Sunlight Labs opens up Real Time Congress API
Sunlight Labs continues its work for a more open government with its recent…
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Find more of the data you need with DataMarket
Add another online destination to find the data that you need. DataMarket launched…
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A guide for scraping data
Data is rarely in the format you want it. Dan Nguyen, for ProPublica,…
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Jon Stewart explains Wikileaks’ Cablegate
You’ve probably already heard and read about Wikileaks’ Cablegate. If not, Andy Baio…
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How do people use Firefox?
Mozilla Labs just released a bunch of anonymized browsing data for their open…
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Making recalls and market withdrawals more accessible
Last week I found out that the FDA has a feed for all…
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Opportunities in Government 2.0
Vivek Wadhwa talks government data and the (financial) opportunities ripe for the picking:…
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How people use private browsing
Private browsing. All the modern browsers have it. Turn it on, and the…
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How weather data became open data
Weather in the private sector is over a $1.5 billion industry, and it’s…
