Data is rarely in the format you want it. Dan Nguyen, for ProPublica,…
Data Sources
Have fun and play with some numbers.
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A guide for scraping data
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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…
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Afghanistan war logs revealed and mapped
This past Sunday, well-known whistle-blower site Wikileaks released over 91,000 secret US military…
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Data and its impact on journalism
In regards to the UK’s recent boom in open data, Simon Rogers of…
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Egregious Citations Issued to BP
BP processes about 1.5 million barrels of crude oil per day, across six…
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Live webcast: Community Health Data Initiative
Health and Human Services (HHS) is about to announce the launch of their…
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Twitter data buffet is back in business
Almost a year and a half ago, Infochimps, the data repository slash marketplace,…
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World data released ‘is a dream come true’
In another step towards open data and all that jazz, the World Bank…
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TransparencyData makes campaign finance data easier to access
Anyone who’s looked at campaign finance data knows it can get messy really…
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Buy and sell data at Data Marketplace
Add another site to the list of places to find the data you…
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Data.gov.uk versus Data.gov – Which wins?
Back in May last year, the US government launched Data.gov as a statement…
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Data.gov.uk Gearing Up For Launch, er, Does Launch
Update: I had scheduled this post for next week, but apparently, Data.gov.uk launched…
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Unemployment, 2004 to Present – The Country is Bleeding
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the most recent unemployment numbers last week.…
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Target Store Openings Since the First in 1962 – Data Now Available
FlowingData readers who have been around for a while will remember I made…
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NYC BigApps Competition – $20k In Prize Money
It’s exciting times for data heads. The launch of Data.gov back in May…
