Datamob

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Data

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:51:30 -0500

Downloadable datasets from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Policy Development and Research office, including data on fair market rents, the American Housing Survey, USPS vacancies and Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE). Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.huduser.org/datasets/pdrdatas.html

U.S. Copyright Renewal Records

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:25:17 -0500

U.S. copyright renewal records, downloadable as a single XML file. By Google software engineer Jarkko Hietaniemi. Public domain.

url: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-copyright-renewal-records-available.html

National Center for Health Statistics Data Warehouse

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:10:47 -0500

Downloadable data on U.S. health topics including vital statistics, aging, immunization, health care and nutrition.

url: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/ftpserv/ftpdata/ftpdata.htm

U.S. Lobbying Databases

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:58:38 -0500

Lobbyist information, made available by the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records in accordance with the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA). XML format.

url: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/database_download.htm

IRS Income Tax Data

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:55:13 -0500

ZIP Code Area tables for tax years 2002, 2004 and 2005 from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's Statistics of Income (SOI) program, which uses the Federal tax system as a comprehensive source of economic and financial information. Microsoft Excel format. Public domain.

url: http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/soi_zipcode_data/

BookMooch API

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:08:18 -0500

Query or download the database for BookMooch, a book exchange community. ASCII text and XML formats. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

url: http://bookmooch.com/api/

The Federal Reserve Board Statistics

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:29:53 -0500

Releases and historical data from the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Most tables available in tab-delimited text and/or CSV formats.

url: http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/

Star Wars Kid Data Dump

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:01:05 -0500

Data from Waxy.org's server logs concerning the initial spread of the Star Wars Kid viral video in 2003. Public domain.

url: http://waxy.org/2008/05/star_wars_kid_the_data_dump/

Open Library API

Sat, 24 May 2008 21:33:54 -0500

Query the Open Library database, the goal of which is to provide one web page for every book ever published.

url: http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api

Baseball Databank

Sat, 24 May 2008 21:23:23 -0500

Free historical baseball data, downloadable in comma-delimited text and SQL.

url: http://www.baseball-databank.org/

DataPlace 2.0 (Beta)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:17:55 -0500

DataPlace is a free online data system that assembles a variety of housing and demographic data at geographic scales ranging from the neighborhood to the nation. DataPlace is unique in its emphasis on data comparability and quality, and for its licensing options available to organizations that would like to create their own data sites. By Knowledge Plex, Inc. More information about its data sources is available here.

url: http://beta.dataplace.org/

Illegal Signs Map

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:45:47 -0500

Interactive map of illegal billboards in Toronto, Canada. Data is derived from Freedom of Information requests.

url: http://illegalsigns.ca/map/

Ramazon

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:59:19 -0500

Ramazon uses the Flare Visualization Toolkit to create an interactive visualization of related items on Amazon.com. A follow-up to the Influence Viewer. By Martin Dudek.

url: http://goosebumps4all.net/ramazon/

Influence Viewer

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:43:02 -0500

Influence Viewer uses the Flare Visualization Toolkit to create an interactive visualization of the Influence domain in Freebase, showing who has influenced whom. By Martin Dudek.

url: http://goosebumps4all.net/goi/

Thinkbase

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:19:59 -0500

Thinkbase uses Thinkmap software to create an interactive visual representation of the semantic relationships in Freebase. Presents a paned view with Freebase on the right and a graphical representation of the topics in that Freebase page on the left. By Christian Hirsch.

url: http://thinkbase.cs.auckland.ac.nz/

Free Influencer

Sun, 25 May 2008 19:48:10 -0500

See who has influenced whom according to the Freebase database of notable people. By Albertine Meunier, Jérôme Alexandre and Cornelius Reed.

url: http://www.we-love-the.net/FreeInfluencer/

Basketball Player Winshares Over Time

Sat, 24 May 2008 23:15:19 -0500

Display of top basketball player winshares from 1979-2007. By David Sparks.

url: http://www.duke.edu/~dbs9/envisioning/files/hofwins.png

Supporting Evidence

Sat, 24 May 2008 22:07:41 -0500

Graphical data on education, government and health topics, with links to the tables they're drawn from.

url: http://www.supportingevidence.com/

WikiChanges

Thu, 22 May 2008 21:09:19 -0500

Visualization tool for exploring the revision activity of Wikipedia articles. Uses Flash-based charts from amCharts.com. Click and drag over the charts to zoom in. By Sérgio Nunes.

url: http://sergionunes.com/p/wikichanges/

2008 Campaign Finance Map

Tue, 20 May 2008 21:11:34 -0500

Interactive map showing U.S. presidential campaign contributions by location of origin and date made. Includes an animation option to view contribution activity over time. By Shan Carter, Aron Pilhofer and Cameron Brown for The New York Times.

url: http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/finances/map/index.html

Beautiful Soup

Sat, 24 May 2008 20:50:46 -0500

Python HTML/XML parser, for screen-scraping data sources that don't yet offer downloadable data or an API.

url: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/

Obsessing

Sun, 11 May 2008 15:05:32 -0500

Web-based Processing.js sandbox.

url: http://obsessing.org/

Processing.js

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:13:37 -0500

A JavaScript version of the Processing visualization language. By John Resig.

url: http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/

WikiViz: Tools

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:08:15 -0500

Annotated list of tools for data visualization.

url: http://www.wikiviz.org/wiki/Tools

Prefuse Visualization Toolkit

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:04:23 -0500

Free set of tools for creating rich interactive data visualizations.

url: http://prefuse.org/

Numbrary

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:32:57 -0500

Free library of useful numbers.

url: http://numbrary.com/

CKAN - Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:36:38 -0500

Large registry of open knowledge packages and projects.

url: http://www.ckan.net/

Hpricot HTML Parser

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:15:47 -0500

A fast and delightful HTML parser for Ruby, for data sources that don't yet offer downloadable data or an API.

url: http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/hpricot/

Flowing Data

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:30:18 -0500

Blog that explores how statisticians, designers, computer scientists and others are using data to help us understand more about ourselves and our surroundings.

url: http://flowingdata.com/

Flare Visualization Toolkit

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:25:45 -0500

A collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building interactive visualizations on the web.

url: http://flare.prefuse.org/