Datamob: resources

Polymaps

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:54:40 -0400

A JavaScript library for making dynamic, interactive maps in modern web browsers. By Stamen Design and SimpleGeo.

Code for America

Sun, 15 Aug 2010 23:05:53 -0400

Code for America helps city governments become more transparent, connected and efficient by connecting the talents of web developers with people who deliver city services and want to embrace the transformative power of the web to achieve more impact with less money. Inspired in part by Teach for America, CFA works with city officials and leading web development talent to identify and then develop web solutions that can then be shared and rolled out more broadly to cities across America.

url: http://codeforamerica.org/

HumbleFinance

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:27:27 -0400

HumbleFinance is an HTML5 data visualization tool written as a demonstration of interactive graphing in HTML5. The tool is written entirely in JavaScript, using the Prototype and Flotr libraries. It can be used to display any two 2-D data sets of real numerical data which share an axis.

url: http://www.humblesoftware.com/finance/index

Open311

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:18:48 -0500

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.

url: http://open311.org/

MapTogether

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:39:15 -0500

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.

url: http://maptogether.org/

Information is Beautiful

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:56:24 -0500

Blog by David McCandless which regularly features original data visualizations and associated source data.

url: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/

Tableau Public

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:20:30 -0500

A Windows desktop application for easy data visualization and publication on the web.

url: http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/

Protovis

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:23:09 -0500

"A graphical approach to visualization" which uses Javascript and SVG for web-native data visualizations. By Mike Bostock and Jeffrey Heer.

url: http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/

City of Vancouver Open Data Catalogue

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:17:34 -0400

Catalog of public datasets generated by the City of Vancouver.

url: http://data.vancouver.ca/datacatalogue/index.htm

R for Programmers

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:19:30 -0400

An accessible tutorial on the R programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. By Norm Matloff.

url: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html