Datamob: business

CrunchBase API

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:00:18 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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

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

Map of Wal-Mart Growth

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:00:39 -0500

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

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

Industry Browser

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:01:06 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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

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

FINVIZ.com

Mon, 12 May 2008 21:27:16 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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 -0500

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

url: http://theyrule.net/