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USGovXML

Index to the publicly availably web services and XML data sources provided by the U.S. government.

Data.gov

Catalog of public datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the U.S. Federal Government.

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: tools 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

Freebase Acre

Easily build JavaScript web apps that run on Freebase data using this integrated app development and hosting platform. Check out the Freebase API and Data Dumps.

tags: tools

Harvestman Crawler

Python-based web crawler that can be used to download files from websites according to a number of customized rules and constraints.

tags: tools

Datahub

Python-based tool that allows for faster downloading, parsing, loading and visualization of data.

tags: tools

Sunlight Labs' Apps for America

Development contest rewarding developers that use data from Sunlight Labs to create applications that make U.S. Congress more accountable, interactive and transparent.

tags: tools inspiration

Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Repository of public data sets that can be seamlessly integrated into AWS cloud-based applications. Available data ranges from Human Genome data from Ensembl to a variety of U.S. Census data.

tags: tools repository

GeoCommons

Hub for geographical data and map-making.

tags: tools repository

Apps for Democracy

$20K in prizes for the most useful applications developed from the Washington, D.C. Data Catalog.

tags: inspiration

Cytoscape

Open source bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction networks or network graphs of any kind involving nodes and edges (e.g., social networks).

tags: tools visualization

The New York Times Visualization Lab

Create visualizations of data and information presented by the New York Times using the "Many Eyes" technology from IBM Research.

tags: tools visualization

Modest Maps

Display and interaction library for tile-based maps in Flash and Python.

tags: tools visualization

Mesh Processing Library

Library for creating Voronoi, Delaunay and Convex Hull diagrams in Processing. By Lee Byron.

tags: tools visualization

Show Us a Better Way

UK government-sponsored competition for ideas on how to put public data to good use.

tags: inspiration

Mapstraction

Mapstraction provides a common API for various JavaScript mapping APIs, allowing developers to easily change the mapping provider of their application.

tags: tools visualization