resources 
Open311
Website aimed at facilitating an international effort to build open interoperable systems that allow citizens to more directly interact with their cities. Run by the Open Planning Project.
tags: blog inspiration
MapTogether
The MapTogether project provides free map-related training and tools for community and nonprofit groups around the world. Their resources include software, datasets, online mapping services, documentation, and training resources.
Information is Beautiful
Blog by David McCandless which regularly features original data visualizations and associated source data.
tags: blog inspiration repository
Tableau Public
A Windows desktop application for easy data visualization and publication on the web.
tags: tools
Protovis
"A graphical approach to visualization" which uses Javascript and SVG for web-native data visualizations. By Mike Bostock and Jeffrey Heer.
tags: tools
City of Vancouver Open Data Catalogue
Catalog of public datasets generated by the City of Vancouver.
tags: repository
R for Programmers
An accessible tutorial on the R programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. By Norm Matloff.
tags: how to
Applications for New South Wales
Development contest from the government of New South Wales in Australia rewarding developers that use government and public data sources related to NSW to create applications.
tags: contests inspiration
data.australia.gov.au
Catalog of public datasets generated by the Australian government.
tags: repository
MashUp Australia Contest
Development contest from Australia's Government 2.0 Taskforce rewarding developers that use government data sources like those available on data.australia.gov.au to create applications.
tags: contests inspiration
NYC Big Apps
Development contest from the City of New York rewarding developers that use any of the data sources available on NYC Data Mine to create applications. Judges include John Borthwick, Jason Calacanis, Fred Wilson, Esther Dyson and Kevin Ryan.
tags: contests inspiration
DataSF
Clearinghouse for datasets published by the City and County of San Francisco.
tags: repository
80legs
Create custom web crawlers to grab data from pages with no feeds.
tags: tools
DataMasher
Tool for mashing up datasets from the U.S. government to see how states compare on important issues.
tags: tools repository
Sunlight Labs on GitHub
Resources and code from Sunlight Labs, available for download.
tags: repository
USGovXML
Index to the publicly availably web services and XML data sources provided by the U.S. government.
tags: repository
Data.gov
Catalog of public datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the U.S. Federal Government.
tags: repository
Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge
Development contest from Sunlight Labs rewarding developers that use any of the data sources on Data.gov to create applications. Judges include Tim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media and Chris DiBona, open source program manager at Google.
tags: contests inspiration
GovFresh
A live feed of official news from U.S. Government Twitter, YouTube, RSS, Facebook, Flickr accounts and more.
tags: tools repository
Circos
A GPL-licensed visualization tool that can help show relationships in data.
tags: tools
Real-World Data Sets
A list of small real-world data sets collected from the web.
tags: repository
Our Open Government List
Area to submit and vote on ideas for inclusion in U.S. President Obama's forthcoming Open Government Directive.
tags: inspiration
Hacking Congress
Hub for projects at the intersection of civics and technology, focusing on projects related to the U.S. Congress and state-level legislatures.
tags: repository
Yes We Scan
Website of the campaign to appoint Carl Malamud Public Printer of the United States, head of the Government Printing Office. Endorsed by Datamob.
tags: inspiration
CloudMade
CloudMade provides a variety of resources to help developers build location-based apps using data from OpenStreetMap, including geocoding services and a mapping API with wrappers for Ruby, Python, and Java.
tags: tools
Google App Engine
The Google App Engine allows developers to run Python applications on Google infrastructure. Accounts are free up to monthly bandwidth and storage limits and users can pay for resources they use past those limits.
tags: tools
DBSlayer
A lightweight database abstraction layer suitable for high-load websites where you need the scalable advantages of connection pooling. Written in C for speed, DBSlayer talks to clients via JSON over HTTP, meaning it's simple to monitor and can swiftly interoperate with any web framework you choose.
tags: tools
Open Blog
A blog about open-source technology at The New York Times, written by and for developers.
tags: blog inspiration
Google Chart API
Dynamically generate chart images. See a lovely example on the Datamob about page.
tags: tools visualization
AJAX API Playground
Sandbox for 8 Google JavaScript APIs (Maps, Search, Feeds, Calendar, Visualization, Language, Blogger, Libraries and Earth). Play with 170 samples and save or export your own work.
tags: tools inspiration how to