Datamob: resources

Open311

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:18:48 -0600

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 -0600

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 -0600

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 -0600

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 -0600

"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 -0500

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 -0500

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

Applications for New South Wales

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:38:48 -0500

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.

url: http://www.information.nsw.gov.au/apps4nsw

data.australia.gov.au

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:30:27 -0500

Catalog of public datasets generated by the Australian government.

url: http://data.australia.gov.au

MashUp Australia Contest

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:27:35 -0500

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.

url: http://mashupaustralia.org/