Datamob: usa

TheMiddleClass.org Scorecard Data

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:43:15 -0500

Download TheMiddleClass.org's scorecard data for U.S. legislation calculated according to potential impact on the middle class. CSV format.

url: http://themiddleclass.org/csv

NPR API

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:16:19 -0500

Query an archive of National Public Radio content dating back to 1995. Returns results in RSS, MediaRSS, JSON, Atom and custom NPRML formats.

See the announcement on NPR.org for more information.

url: http://www.npr.org/api/

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Data

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:51:30 -0500

Downloadable datasets from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Policy Development and Research office, including data on fair market rents, the American Housing Survey, USPS vacancies and Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE). Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.huduser.org/datasets/pdrdatas.html

U.S. Copyright Renewal Records

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:25:17 -0500

U.S. copyright renewal records, downloadable as a single XML file. By Google software engineer Jarkko Hietaniemi. Public domain.

url: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-copyright-renewal-records-available.html

National Center for Health Statistics Data Warehouse

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:10:47 -0500

Downloadable data on U.S. health topics including vital statistics, aging, immunization, health care and nutrition.

url: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/ftpserv/ftpdata/ftpdata.htm

U.S. Lobbying Databases

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:58:38 -0500

Lobbyist information, made available by the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records in accordance with the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA). XML format.

url: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/database_download.htm

IRS Income Tax Data

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:55:13 -0500

ZIP Code Area tables for tax years 2002, 2004 and 2005 from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's Statistics of Income (SOI) program, which uses the Federal tax system as a comprehensive source of economic and financial information. Microsoft Excel format. Public domain.

url: http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/soi_zipcode_data/

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/

MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill Research

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:27:04 -0500

The 400+ interest categories used by MAPLight.org, the National Institute on Money in State Politics (Follow the Money) and the Center for Responsive Politics (Open Secrets) to categorize political campaign contributions. Bill research used by MAPLight. Originally contributed by MAPLight to Watchdog.net. Microsoft Excel and CSV formats.

See also: MAPLight API.

url: http://watchdog.net/data/crawl/maplight/

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:05:56 -0500

Data on labor economics. Most tables available in tab-delimited and comma-delimited ASCII text.

url: http://www.bls.gov/

Civic Footprint API

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:02:10 -0500

Look up the political geography of any address in Cook County, Illinois.

url: http://www.civicfootprint.org/about/api

Who Is My Representative API

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:37:50 -0500

Call Who Is My Representative PHP scripts directly with ZIP code information and have XML or JSON returned with information on the corresponding representation in U.S. Congress.

url: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/api/

Rhode Island GovTracker API

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:07:56 -0500

RESTful API from the Rhode Island Secretary of State's eGovernment and IT Divison, offering access to basic information on state elected and appointed officials, committees, proposed rules and regulations and other local government information.

url: http://www.state.ri.us/govtracker/services/

MAPLight API

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:48:51 -0500

Query U.S. House and Senate candidate funding data from MAPLight.org.

See also: MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill Research.

url: http://www.maplight.org/widgets/apis

Taxpayers for Common Sense Congressional Earmark Database

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:36:55 -0500

Comprehensive, downloadable database of U.S. Congressional earmarks. Provided by Taxpayers for Common Sense, an organization dedicated to cutting wasteful government spending. Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.taxpayer.net/

Libre Map Project

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:10:20 -0500

Free U.S. digital maps and geographic information system (GIS) data. Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.0 license.

url: http://libremap.org/

Watchdog.net API

Thu, 01 May 2008 08:33:10 -0500

Query the Watchdog.net U.S. political data hub in a variety of ways. The site is designed to be machine-readable as well as human-readable.

url: http://watchdog.net/about/api

Project Vote Smart API

Thu, 01 May 2008 07:57:00 -0500

Query Project Vote Smart's database of U.S. political candidates' voting records, campaign contributions, public statements, biographies and special-interest group ratings.

url: http://www.votesmart.org/services_api.php

Stanford Copyright Renewal Database

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:11:28 -0500

Downloadable dataset of 250,000 records on U.S. copyright renewal for books published between 1950 and 1995.

url: http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home

U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line Data

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:23:03 -0500

Data files for the U.S. Census Bureau's experiment in web-based mapping: the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) system. Shapefile format.

url: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/

Bureau of Economic Analysis Data

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:01:12 -0500

National, international, regional and industry economic data. Downloadable in CSV format.

url: http://www.bea.gov/interactive.htm

Kaiser State Health Facts

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:46:00 -0500

Health data on U.S. states, downloadable in Microsoft Excel and tab-delimited ASCII text formats.

url: http://www.statehealthfacts.org/

National Center for Education Statistics

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:32:46 -0500

Tables and figures on education in the U.S., including state-specific tables. Downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://nces.ed.gov/quicktables/

U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:20:40 -0500

U.S. crime data, much of it downloadable in CSV and ASCII formats.

url: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/welcome.html

U.S. Census Data

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:04:30 -0500

Variety of tools for accessing U.S. Census data, including direct file access.

url: http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html

Federal Aviation Administration Data & Statistics

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:11:27 -0500

U.S. aviation data, downloadable in ASCII text and Microsoft Excel formats.

url: http://www.faa.gov/data_statistics/

National Bridge Inventory Data

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:56:55 -0500

Data on 600,000 U.S. bridges. ASCII text.

url: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi/ascii.cfm

Voteview

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:17:10 -0500

U.S. Senate and House roll call data and other political data compiled by Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal. ASCII text.

url: http://voteview.com/

Zillow U.S. Neighborhood Boundary Data

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:55:49 -0500

Data on the boundaries of 7,000 U.S. urban neighborhoods. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. Arc Shapefile format.

url: http://www.zillow.com/labs/NeighborhoodBoundaries.htm

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:00:19 -0500

The U.S. Census Bureau's comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States. Many tables downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

Law Commons

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:26:02 -0500

Source files and information on AltLaw.org, the full-text searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Appellate case reports. Case reports are downloadable via FTP.

url: http://lawcommons.org/trac/

USGS Mineral Resources Data

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:37:16 -0500

Collection of downloadable datasets on mineral resources in the U.S.

url: http://tin.er.usgs.gov/

Legislative Council of California Bill Index

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:08:08 -0500

California legislative data, available in ASCII text.

url: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilindex.html

U.S. Federal Election Commission Campaign Finance Data

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:15:29 -0500

U.S. political campaign finance data, downloadable in comma-delimited ASCII text.

See also the Maplight API.

url: http://www.fec.gov/disclosure.shtml

San Francisco Building Permit Activity

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:30:38 -0500

Building permits issued or applied for as reported by the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI), published in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.sfgov.org/site/dbi_page.asp?id=30605

New York City Sign Permit Actions

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:17:24 -0500

Applications for sign permits in New York City. Published by the New York City Department of Buildings in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/html/guides/weekly.shtml#sign

New York City Property Sales

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:08:07 -0500

Property sales reported by the New York City Department of Finance. Data is updated monthly and published in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/property/property_val_sales.shtml

Follow the Money API

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:38:19 -0500

Web framework for accessing the National Institute on Money in State Politics' database of all campaign contributions to political campaigns at the state level.

See also: MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill Research

url: http://www.followthemoney.org/services/index.phtml

LOUIS API

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:25:49 -0500

Web framework for accessing the 300,000 U.S. federal government documents that comprise the LOUIS database. The documents are scraped daily from the Government Printing Office website, GPOAccess.gov.

url: http://www.louisdb.org/api/

SunlightLabs API

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:51:11 -0500

Access to clerical information about members of the 110th U.S. Congress (phone, email, district). Features API methods that tie cities to ZIP codes to districts to latitude/longitude

url: http://sunlightlabs.com/api/

FedSpending.org

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:49:15 -0500

Access to U.S. government spending information. Data can be downloaded in comma-delimited ASCII text, tab-delimited ASCII text and XML, and there's an API as well.

url: http://www.fedspending.org/

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

Open Secrets

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:04:14 -0500

Data on money in U.S. politics, collected and published by the Center for Responsive Politics.

See also: MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill Research

url: http://www.opensecrets.org/

USAspending.gov

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:49:57 -0500

Access to U.S. government contract, grant and other award data, downloadable in CSV and XML formats as well as via API.

url: http://www.usaspending.gov/

FedStats

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:25:57 -0500

Comprehensive source of U.S. statistical data.

url: http://www.fedstats.gov/

THOMAS

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:14:46 -0500

U.S. legislative information from the Library of Congress.

url: http://thomas.loc.gov/

Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles (NKLA) Data

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:11:08 -0500

Data on tax-delinquent properties and demographic information in Los Angeles, offered to help prevent housing conditions from deteriorating.

url: http://nkla.sppsr.ucla.edu/

Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:09:55 -0500

Comprehensive collection of government activity data from the District of Columbia.

url: http://data.octo.dc.gov/

U.S. Public Transit Schedule Data

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:09:13 -0500

A list of U.S. transit schedule data published by transit agencies and operators in Google Transit Feed Specifcation (GTFS) format. They contain scheduled times, stop locations, route information and optionally fare information and detailed route shapes.

url: http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds

U.S. Census Bureau - 1990 Names

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:06:33 -0500

url: http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html

Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care U.S. Hospital Performance Data

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:06:01 -0500

U.S. hospital performance and efficiency data.

url: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/data/download.shtm

U.S. Trademark Data

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:05:26 -0500

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

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/

U.S. Copyright Registration Records

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:03:16 -0500

Raw data from the U.S. Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.

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

GovTrack Government Activity Data

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:58:14 -0500

A directory of the datasets that power GovTrack.us. RDF, CSV and XML formats.

Learn more about the GovTrack backend.

url: http://wiki.govtrack.us/index.php/Data_Directory

2000 U.S. Census in RDF

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:20:19 -0500

By Joshua Tauberer.

url: http://www.rdfabout.com/demo/census/

Timeline of the Modern Two-Party System in the U.S. Senate

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:37:07 -0500

Timeline of the ebb and flow of party politics in the U.S. Senate since the beginning of the two-party era: the antebellum 35th Congress. By David Sparks.

url: http://www.duke.edu/~dbs9/senatehistory.html

Knowledge as Power

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:51:01 -0500

Simple, personalized website for searching and tracking bills of the Washington State Legislature. Additional tools include legalese translation, bill timelines and tools for emailing your legislators.

submitted by: Sarah Schacht

url: http://beta.knowledgeaspower.org

U.S. Presidential Polls Over Time

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:08:57 -0500

Visualization of state and national polls on the U.S. presidential race. Roll over individual data points for more detail. Data for each chart is available for download in tab-delimited text format. By Lee Byron, Chris Barnes and Henry Corrigan-Gibbs for The New York Times.

url: http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/whos-ahead/polling/index.html

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/

San Francisco Walkability Map

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:09:59 -0500

Detailed map of the most walkable sections of San Francisco, CA, using data from Walk Score. Created with Processing. Scraping code available for download. By Lee Byron.

url: http://leebyron.com/how/2008/07/13/mapping-walkability-san-francisco/

Walk Score

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:52:21 -0500

Ranks U.S. addresses by walkability by means of Walk Scores. By Front Seat civic software.

url: http://www.walkscore.com/

TheMiddleClass.org

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:36:09 -0500

Searchable and browsable analysis of U.S. legislation based on potential impact on the middle class. Uses the Legislature module for Drupal by Neil Drumm. By the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI).

url: http://themiddleclass.org/

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/

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/

Supporting Evidence

Sat, 24 May 2008 22:07:41 -0500

Graphical data on education, government and health topics, with links to the tables they're drawn from.

url: http://www.supportingevidence.com/

2008 Campaign Finance Map

Tue, 20 May 2008 21:11:34 -0500

Interactive map showing U.S. presidential campaign contributions by location of origin and date made. Includes an animation option to view contribution activity over time. By Shan Carter, Aron Pilhofer and Cameron Brown for The New York Times.

url: http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/finances/map/index.html

SparkIP

Tue, 20 May 2008 12:06:06 -0500

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

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

SpotCrime.com

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:38:37 -0500

Interactive maps of urban crime in the U.S. Registered users can receive crime alerts via email or SMS.

url: http://spotcrime.com/

D.C. Data Pipes

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:13:07 -0500

Yahoo Pipes created using public space permit, crime incident, building permit, service request, and juvenile arrests and charges data from Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse. Each pipe allows users to filter data and return results—in some cases, results are also mapped. By Frank Winstead.

url: http://pipes.yahoo.com/frank_winstead

JDLand

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:40:41 -0500

Website chronicling the redevelopment of the "Near Southeast" neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Uses data from Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse to report recent crime incidents, building permits, public space permits, service requests and real property sales.

url: http://www.jdland.com

CrimeReports.com

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:23:46 -0500

Maps crime data from cities and law enforcement agencies around the U.S. By Public Engines, Inc., a private company that provides web-based products to help government agencies share information directly with local communities.

url: http://www.crimereports.com

An Average Consumer's Spending

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:11:47 -0500

Interactive Voronoi treemap of the Consumer Price Index, showing how much the average American spends on 84,000 products in 200 categories. By Matthew Bloch, Shan Carter and Amanda Cox for The New York Times.

url: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/03/business/20080403_SPENDING_GRAPHIC.html

Unfluence

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:40:24 -0500

Interactive network maps of U.S. state-level political contribution data.

url: http://unfluence.primate.net/index.html

Visualizing Earmarks

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:10:19 -0500

Visualizations of 2005 U.S. Office of Management and Budget earmark data.

See also Earmark Watch.

url: http://sunlightlabs.com/visualizingearmarks/

Civic Footprint

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:50:38 -0500

A tool for exploring the political geography of Cook County, Illinois. By the Center for Neighborhood Technology.

url: http://www.civicfootprint.org/

Who Is My Representative?

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:24:37 -0500

Simple tool for looking up representation in U.S. Congress.

url: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/

Federal Contracts by State

Sun, 04 May 2008 20:54:41 -0500

U.S. federal contract data visually presented using the Google Charts API. By Jim Hamilton.

url: http://www.tetonpost.com/sc/

Earmark Watch

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:07:10 -0500

Public space for the investigation of earmarks—spending measures inserted by members of U.S. Congress into bills that direct taxpayer dollars to their pet projects. Provides a research framework and space for comments and notes.

url: http://earmarkwatch.org/

Watchdog.net

Thu, 01 May 2008 08:12:04 -0500

Hub for U.S. political data, action and causes. Every important page is also available as an API, accessible in N3, XML or JSON.

url: http://watchdog.net/

All Streets

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:34:32 -0500

Image of the 26 million individual road segments of the U.S. No other features added. By Ben Fry.

url: http://benfry.com/allstreets/index.html

Flight Patterns

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:22:13 -0500

Animated visualizations of U.S. air traffic data.

url: http://users.design.ucla.edu/%7Eakoblin/work/faa/index.html

Network Diagrams of U.S. Senator Roll Call Voting Proximity

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:30:13 -0500

"Using Senators' Roll Call votes from the first session of the 110th Congress, it is possible to identify ideological similarities and differences between each Senator. These network diagrams exhibit these similarities and distances." By David Sparks.

url: http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/dimesworth-of-difference/

President Bush State of the Union Speech Sentence Diagrams

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:25:02 -0500

Diagrammatic expressions of the content of President George W. Bush's State of the Union Addresses. Offers contrasts between speeches made in different years. By David Sparks

url: http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/bushs-legacy-speaks-for-itself/

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/

Oakland Crimespotting

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:52:38 -0500

Interactive map of crimes in Oakland, California.

url: http://oakland.crimespotting.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/

zipdecode

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:24:58 -0500

Animated explorer of U.S. ZIP code districts. By Ben Fry.

url: http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/

EveryBlock

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:54:59 -0500

Comprehensive geographic news filter, currently available for Chicago, New York City and San Francisco.

url: http://www.everyblock.com/

PopUp Politicians for Web Pages

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:57:06 -0500

Javascript-based widget that adds mini-profiles of Members of Congress to web page that appear when you mouseover politicians' names.

url: http://sunlightlabs.com/popuppoliticians/

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/

Change Congress

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:48:16 -0500

Offers tools for citizens and candidates to pledge their support for basic changes to reduce the distorting influence of money in American government.

url: http://change-congress.org/

Trulia Hindsight

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:45:35 -0500

Maps of U.S. properties over time, showing the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities.

url: http://hindsight.trulia.com/

StateMaster

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:44:47 -0500

Graphically compare U.S. states in a thousand different ways.

url: http://www.statemaster.com/index.php

GovTrack.us

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:30:43 -0500

Track bills before Congress and other U.S. government data. By Joshua Tauberer.

url: http://www.govtrack.us/

MAPLight.org

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:30:04 -0500

Illuminates the connection between money and politics in America, specifically the U.S. Congress and the State of California. Uses the Legislature module for Drupal by Neil Drumm. They have an API as well.

url: http://maplight.org/about

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/