30 Places to Find Open Data on the Web

Finding an interesting data set and a story it tells can be the most difficult part of producing an infographic or data visualization. Data visualization is the end artifact, but it involves multiple steps – finding reliable data, getting the data in the right format, cleaning it up (an often underestimated step in the amount of time it takes!) and then finding the story you will eventually visualize. Following is a list useful resources for finding data. Your needs will vary from one project to another, but this list is a great place to start — and bookmark. 1. Data.gov: This is the go-to resource for government-related data. 2. These are the places that house data from all kinds of sources. 3. Usually, the best place to get social data for an API is the site itself: Instagram, GetGlue, Foursquare, pretty much all social media sites have their own API’s. 4. Wunderground has detailed weather information and also let’s you search historical data by zip code or city. 5. 6. 7.

World Stats Interactive Maps - Index This index lists over 400 interactive world maps covering areas such as health, education, drugs & crime, economy, environment, gender and population for all countries. See also the data sources. Categories Most popular interactive maps Sports interactive maps: Most Popular Interactive Visualizations Anime rankings by genre - Discover the top anime by rating, popularity and genre. Indicators Digital Divide & ICT >Mobile and Telephone >Internet subscribers Drugs & Crime >Drugs >Homicide rates >Thefts and robbery Economy & Development >Agriculture >Employment >GDP and GDP growth >Inflation Inflation rate, average consumer prices >Human Development Index (HDI) >Inequality >Poverty and Aid >Research and Development >Unemployment Unemployment rate Education >Access >Education system >Expenditure >Gender equity >School life expectancy >Progression rates >>Repetition rates >>Survival rates >>Transition rates >Teachers >Tertiary Education Enrolment >Tertiary Education Fields >Quality of Education - All international studies Gender

DataMaps.eu » map your data | provided by open3.at POLITICA DEI SERVIZI SOCIALI WikiProject France/Limites administratives Le tracé des limites administratives françaises est complet depuis le 4 décembre 2013 (hors département de Mayotte) Une vidéo montrant la progression du tracé est disponible: Ce projet passe donc dans une phase de contrôle de qualité des tracés effectués entre mars 2008 et décembre 2013 ainsi qu'un suivi des changements de ces limites. Contrôle de la qualité Une première étude de contrôle de qualité a été faite sur les nœuds d'intersection de communes en comparaison avec le Route500 de l'IGN. Mise à jour: Suivi des modifications publiées au Journal Officiel Les changements de limites administratives peuvent être issus de fusions ou scissions de communes, ainsi que de modifications des limites territoriales entre deux communes. La liste ci-dessous a pour but de répertorier ces publications et la mise à jour faite (ou non) dans OSM: Les sources potentielles Guide pour les tracer cadget

Data.gov Open-source Weave liberates data for journalists, citizens Data nerds from government and academia gathered Friday at Northeastern University to show off the latest version of Weave, an open-source, web-based platform designed to visualize “any available data by anyone for any purpose.” The software has a lot of potential for journalists. Weave is supported by the Open Indicators Consortium, an unusual partnership of planning agencies and universities who wanted better tools to inform public policy and community decision-making. The groups organized and agreed to share data and code in 2008, well before Gov 2.0 was hot. Think of Weave as more programming language than app. Data is linked, which means you can view the same datapoint from many angles. The software reminds me of SPSS, from my college poli sci days. Georges Grinstein, a professor of computer science at UMass Lowell, develops Weave with a team of some 20 students.

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UK Open Data Institute (Silicon Roundabout) Posted by Information Age on 28 November 2011 Share article 0googleplus Short of time? Print this pageEmail article The government will announce a number of open data initiatives tomorrow, including a new Open Data Institute near 'Silicon Roundabout'. The Open Data Institute will "innovate, exploit and research open data opportunities with business and academia", chancellor George Osborne will announce tomorrow. The institute will be directed by leading open data academics Professor Nigel Shadbolt and web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The scheme recalls the Institute for Web Science, an academic research centre proposed by former prime minister Gordon Brown in March 2010, which was also due to be run by Shadbolt and Berners-Lee. "We want to build on the outstanding work Sir Tim and Nigel Shadbolt have put in to 'making public data public'," said Brown at the time. However, the current government scrapped the £30 million plan in May 2010, saying it was a "low priority".