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LibraryThing Web Services API

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:21:56 -0500

RESTful XML-based API for querying the LibraryThing Common Knowledge database of interesting facts about books. Developer key required. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.

See the announcement on LibraryThing for more information.

See also the LibraryThing Books API.

url: http://www.librarything.com/services/webservices.php

New Zealand Legislation

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:34:42 -0500

Text of New Zealand Acts, Bills and Regulations. Their RSS feed can be put to good use.

submitted by: Rob McKinnon

url: http://legislation.govt.nz/

Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) API

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:54:07 -0500

RESTful API for querying the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network's database of "open knowledge" packages and projects.

url: http://www.ckan.net/api/rest/

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

FUTEF Wikipedia API

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:36:26 -0500

Search API for accessing Wikipedia content. Available for non-commercial use.

url: http://api.futef.com/apidocs.html

BBC Backstage: Feeds & APIs

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:28:20 -0500

BBC TV and radio data, programme catalogue information, search API and more. Available for non-commercial use with attribution.

url: http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/Data

Notices from the London Gazette

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:12:36 -0500

All notices published in the London Gazette, the UK government’s official journal and newspaper of record, in XML from February 2007 to May 2008.

url: http://www.londongazette.co.uk/mashup/gazettesdata.htm

UK Neighbourhood Statistics API

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:59:37 -0500

SOAP-based API from the UK Office of National Statistics for accessing data about UK neighborhoods. Includes data on the 2001 Census, Access to Services, Community Well-Being/Social Environment, Crime and Safety, Economic Deprivation, Education, Skills and Training, Health and Care, Housing, Indicators, Indices of Deprivation, People and Society, Physical Environment and Work Deprivation.

Read more about the data here.

url: http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/Info.do?page=nde.htm

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/

Geographically Based Economic Data (G-Econ)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:39:17 -0500

Geophysically scaled economic dataset, containing economic activity for each 1x1 degree latitude-by-longitude cell on the globe. By Professor William Nordhaus of Yale University. Microsoft Excel format. Public domain.

url: http://gecon.yale.edu/

Olympic Medal Count Map

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:24:38 -0500

Cartogram in which countries are circles sized according to the number of Olympic medals received. Use the slider to view results from past Olympics and click the 'by ranking' tab to sort countries into a list. By Lee Byron, Amanda Cox and Matthew Ericson for The New York Times.

url: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html

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/

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

Modest Maps

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:27:55 -0500

Display and interaction library for tile-based maps in Flash and Python.

url: http://modestmaps.com/

Mesh Processing Library

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:24:05 -0500

Library for creating Voronoi, Delaunay and Convex Hull diagrams in Processing. By Lee Byron.

url: http://leebyron.com/else/mesh/

Show Us a Better Way

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:41:21 -0500

UK government-sponsored competition for ideas on how to put public data to good use.

url: http://www.showusabetterway.co.uk

Mapstraction

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:33:34 -0500

Mapstraction provides a common API for various JavaScript mapping APIs, allowing developers to easily change the mapping provider of their application.

url: http://www.mapstraction.com/