Datamob: business

Open SEC Data

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:35:39 -0400

An open API for information contained in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings.

Open SEC is a web service datafeed for fundamental financial data from income statements, balance sheets and statements of cash flows as reported to the Securities and Exchange forms 10-K (annnual report) and 10-Q (quarterly).

submitted by: Jensen Werth

url: http://www.opensecdata.com/

Amazon Customer Review Data

Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:36:25 -0400

A dataset of Amazon customer reviews, for opinion mining, sentiment analysis and opinion spam detection research.

Compiled by Nitin Jindal and Bing Liu. More data and background available here.

url: http://131.193.40.52/data/

Target Store Openings, 1962-2008

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:46:54 -0400

A list of the store numbers, opening dates and locations of Target retail stores in the U.S., from 1962-2008.

url: http://flowingdata.com/2009/10/22/target-store-openings-since-the-first-in-1962-data-now-available/

CorpWatch API

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:31:49 -0400

The CorpWatch API uses automated parsers to extract the subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies' 10-K filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, providing a free, well-structured interface for programs to query and process the data. By Skye Bender-deMoll and Greg Michalec.

A project of CorpWatch, funded by a grant from the Sunlight Foundation.

url: http://api.corpwatch.org/

Etsy API

Sun, 10 May 2009 09:17:05 -0400

RESTful API for programmatically accessing Etsy, a global handmade marketplace. Provides access to data on users, shops, item listings, feedback, tags and categories, favorites and gift guides. Returns results in JSON. API key required.

Review the Etsy API Terms of Use.

url: http://developer.etsy.com

Federal Reserve Economic Data API

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:45:20 -0400

RESTful API for retrieving economic data from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) and ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data (ALFRED) websites hosted by the Economic Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Requests can be customized according to data source, release, category, series and other preferences. API key required.

url: http://api.stlouisfed.org/docs/fred/

Kiva API

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:57:18 -0500

Set of RESTful web services for fetching public data from the Kiva lending community. JSON and XML formats. No developer registration required.

Enron Email Mailbox PST Dataset

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:38:19 -0500

This refined version of the CALO Enron Email Dataset is available as 148 PST files, complete with original folder structure, to preserve user information associated with the emails. Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

submitted by: John Wang

url: http://enrondata.org

GetSatisfaction API

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:26:02 -0400

This API provides access to all the questions, answers and ideas exchanged between companies and their customers on GetSatisfaction. Data available in JSON, Atom and XHTML.

url: http://developers.getsatisfaction.com

CrunchBase API

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:00:18 -0400

Information on early-stage technology companies, including acquisitions and funding rounds. Available in JSON. Licensing is still being finalized but will be Creative Commons Attribution or similar.

See the announcement on TechCrunch for more information.

submitted by: Matthew Weber

url: http://www.crunchbase.com/help/api

The Federal Reserve Board Statistics

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:29:53 -0400

Releases and historical data from the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Most tables available in tab-delimited text and/or CSV formats.

url: http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/

Amazon ISBN Similarity Graph

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:36:18 -0400

Output of a crawl of Amazon.com's item similarity API from January 18, 2008 for ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers). ASCII text and XML. By Aaron Swartz.

url: http://www.archive.org/details/amazon_similarity_isbn/

Doing Business: Full Data

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:21:50 -0400

Data on business regulations and their enforcement across 178 countries and selected cities. A project of the World Bank. Tables downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.doingbusiness.org/CustomQuery/

SEC Corporate Ownership Linked Data, 2003-2006

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:48:34 -0400

Corporate ownership records (2003-2006) from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database in open, linked RDF.

url: http://rdfabout.com/demo/sec/

SEC Filings (EDGAR)

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:53:00 -0400

Access to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings from public companies.

url: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

Enron Email Dataset

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:18:37 -0400

200,000 internal emails from Enron, 1999-2002, made public in 2003 as part of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's investigation into Enron. 400 MB, compressed.

url: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~enron/

U.S. Patents, 1983-2000

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:04:52 -0400

tar.gz collections of the full text of U.S. Patents from 1983 to 2000.

url: http://bulk.resource.org/patent/

Open Economics Data Store

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:02:35 -0400

Collection of datasets on current and historical topics in economics. CSV format.

url: http://openeconomics.net/store/

FilterBy

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:21:19 -0500

Browse Etsy and other listings "Venn diagram-style" by combining item tags. By Jakob Lodwick and Peter Vidani.

url: http://filterby.com/

Map of Target Growth

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:39:06 -0400

Animation showing the growth of Target retail stores in the U.S., from 1962-2008. Created with Modest Maps. By Nathan Yau of Flowing Data.

See also: Map of Wal-Mart Growth, the code for which is available under a BSD license.

url: http://projects.flowingdata.com/target/

CraftWeasel

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:08:26 -0400

Enter your Etsy username for recommended items based on your Etsy Favorites. By Martin Jones.

url: http://www.craftweasel.com/

LittleSis

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:28:46 -0400

LittleSis is a free database detailing the connections between powerful people and organizations. It tracks the key relationships of politicians, corporate executives, lobbyists, financiers and their affiliated organizations. A project of the Public Accountability Initiative, supported by the Sunlight Foundation.

url: http://littlesis.org/

More Cloth

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:15:52 -0400

Browse fabrics by color range on Etsy, a global handmade marketplace. By Catherine Jones.

url: http://morecloth.com/

Gotta Etsy

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:45:22 -0400

iPhone OS 3.0 application for searching and browsing shops and listings on Etsy, a global handmade marketplace. Offers the ability to bookmark listings for future reference. By Jacob Yelizarov.

url: http://www.apptism.com/apps/gotta-etsy

CrocTail

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:49:22 -0400

Interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their foreign and domestic subsidiaries. Information from company Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings has been parsed and annotated to highlight specific corporate accountability issues. A project of CorpWatch.

url: http://croctail.corpwatch.org/

Handmade

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:16:35 -0400

iPhone application for searching and browsing categories, featured items, featured sellers and Gift Guides on Etsy, a global handmade marketplace. You can also search for items by color, using a color wheel or images from your iPhone camera or library. By Sleepy Bear Software.

url: http://www.sleepybearsoftware.com/Handmade/Handmade.html

Etsy Addict

Sun, 10 May 2009 10:08:25 -0400

Application for searching and browsing Etsy, a global handmade marketplace, from your iPhone or iPod Touch. By Daniel Dickison.

url: http://danieldickison.com/etsyaddict/

EtsyHacks

Sun, 10 May 2009 09:58:47 -0400

A collection of tools and browser add-ons for Etsy sellers, including a calculator to determine the current value of your Etsy shop. By Ian Malpass.

url: http://www.etsyhacks.com/

Heartomatic

Sun, 10 May 2009 09:38:15 -0400

A set of tools enabling Etsy sellers to see who is "hearting" them or their items and whether their work has been featured in various promotional sections of Etsy. By Julian Lievano and Karena Colquhoun.

url: http://www.craftcult.com/heartomatic.php

Kiva Alerts

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:55:40 -0500

url: http://kivaalerts.com

KivaMap

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:25:16 -0500

The KivaMap plots microfinance loans made around the world through Kiva, featuring details on the loans and the borrowers.

url: http://kivaworld.com/

Influence of U.S. Presidents on the Economy

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:35:51 -0400

Interactive heatmap showing yearly estimates for seven economic indicators during the terms of eleven U.S. presidents. By Kevin Quealy and Guilbert Gates for The New York Times.

url: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/18/business/20081019-metrics-graphic.html

Financial Sector Market Cap Treemap

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:28:34 -0400

Treemap snapshots of the market capitalization of U.S. financial firms in October 2007 and September 2008. By Kevin Quealy and Dylan Loeb McClain for The New York Times.

url: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/15/business/20080916-treemap-graphic.html

Global Consumer Spending Map

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:51:19 -0400

Cartogram in which countries are sized according to the amount of money their citizens spend on clothing, electronics, alcohol, household goods and recreation. By Hannah Fairfield, Elaine He and Kevin Quealy for The New York Times.

url: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/04/business/20080907-metrics-graphic.html

Map of Wal-Mart Growth

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:00:39 -0400

Animation showing the growth of Wal-Mart stores in the United States. Created with Modest Maps. By Nathan Yau of Flowing Data.

The code for this visualization is now available under a BSD license.

url: http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/

Industry Browser

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:01:06 -0400

Browse industries according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and view corresponding Freebase company data as filtered through Google Maps, New York Times Topics, related Wikipedia entries, Securities and Exchange Commission data and political campaign contribution data. By Toby Segaran.

url: http://kiwitobes.com/industry_mashup/

CrunchBase WordPress Plugin

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:57:46 -0400

Plugin for the WordPress weblog platform designed to enable easy insertion of CrunchBase company profiles into blog posts. By Vaibhav Gadodia.

url: http://blog.gadodia.net/crunchbase-api-wordpress-plugin/

CrunchBase Map

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:45:51 -0400

Explore CrunchBase's listing of technology companies by location.

url: http://www.crunchbase.com/maps

Presidential Campaign Spending and Its Beneficiaries

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:29:14 -0400

Interactive graphic showing the amount of money spent by 2008 presidential campaigns by category and company. By Lee Byron, Hannah Fairfield and Griff Palmer for The New York Times.

url: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/07/03/business/20080706_METRICS_GRAPHIC.html

DataPlace 2.0 (Beta)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:17:55 -0400

DataPlace is a free online data system that assembles a variety of housing and demographic data at geographic scales ranging from the neighborhood to the nation. DataPlace is unique in its emphasis on data comparability and quality, and for its licensing options available to organizations that would like to create their own data sites. By Knowledge Plex, Inc. More information about its data sources is available here.

url: http://beta.dataplace.org/

SparkIP

Tue, 20 May 2008 12:06:06 -0400

U.S. patent search tool with clustering and visualization.

url: http://www.sparkip.com/

FINVIZ.com

Mon, 12 May 2008 21:27:16 -0400

Suite of free financial visualization tools including an interactive treemap visualization of the stock market, stock charts with colored trendlines and more. Many tables can be exported in CSV format.

url: http://finviz.com/

Ease of Doing Business Map

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:22:15 -0400

Google Map showing the relative ease of doing business in 178 countries according to the World Bank's Doing Business project.

url: http://rru.worldbank.org/businessplanet/

Shared Board Members of America's Big Companies

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:06:44 -0400

Graphical network showing companies that share board members and CEOs. Created using data extracted from SEC filings and entered into Freebase.

url: http://blog.freebase.com/2008/04/09/visualizing-corporate-america/

Follow the Oil Money

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:00:15 -0400

Interactive tool for tracking the flow of oil money in U.S. politics.

url: http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/

ProxyDemocracy

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:57:46 -0400

Offers tools to help investors in stocks and mutual funds use their voting power to hold corporations accountable.

url: http://proxydemocracy.org/

SEC Financial Explorer

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:55:20 -0400

Tool for exploring interactive data submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by 36 companies using XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language). The companies are part of a 1-year test group.

url: http://209.234.225.154/viewer/home/

Enron Explorer

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:20:16 -0400

Application for exploring the Enron Email Dataset, including a Visualiser for seeing each person's social network based on their email activity. Developed as a technology demonstrator for Trampoline Systems' SONAR platform.

url: http://enron.trampolinesystems.com/

They Rule

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:23:09 -0400

They Rule allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004.

url: http://theyrule.net/