Datamob: resources

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/