Datamob: economics

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/

Census 2000 Planning Database

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:07:16 -0500

The Tract Level Planning Database With Census 2000 Data is a database that assembles a range of housing, demographic and socioeconomic variables that are correlated with mail nonresponse. Using data from U.S. Census 2000, a database containing these variables has been developed for all census tracts in the country.

The variables included in the Tract Level Planning Database With Census 2000 Data (also called the planning database, or PDB) were guided by extensive research conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and others to measure census coverage and to identify reasons people are missed in the census (de la Puente, 1993). The variables include housing indicators (percent renters, multi-units, crowded housing, lack of telephones, vacancy) and person indicators (poverty, not high school graduate, unemployed, complex households, mobility, language isolation, public assistance income). Other operational and demographic data are also included (such as race/ethnic distributions). Using the 1990 Census as the initial source, a database containing these variables was developed for all tracts in the country for use in the planning, implementation and evaluation of Census 2000 (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1999). The PDB contains “hard-to-count” (HTC) scores which summarize the attributes of each tract or block group in terms of enumeration difficulty.

For download (XLS) below.

Submitted by Steven Romalewski

url: http://2010.census.gov/partners/xls/Tract_Level_PDB_Version2.xls

UN Data API Project

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:45:33 -0400

Unofficial API version of the data made available by the United Nations on the UNdata site. REST API hosted on Google's Java AppEngine, with results returned in XML and JSON. Outputs compatible with the Linked Data Initiative.

url: http://www.undata-api.org/

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

Social Actions API

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:55:40 -0400

Social Actions is an open source database of actions people can take on any issue, from volunteer opportunities to micro credit loans. The Social Actions RESTful API returns data in JSON format and contains up-to-date information about actions from 50+ sources, including Care2, DonorsChoose.org, Idealist and Kiva.

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.

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.

USDA Economic Research Service Datasets

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:39:52 -0500

Over 100 datasets from the United States Department of Agriculture, ranging from information about food availability in the U.S. to stats on the costs of specific agricultural products, like fertilizer and milk. Most data available for download as XLS.

url: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/

World Bank API

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:12:00 -0400

The World Bank API offers data on 114 key economic indicators from three of the World Bank's most popular databases: World Development Indicators 2008, Worldwide Governance Indicators and Doing Business. Also provides access to 12,000 images that illustrate development topics from The World Bank Photo Library and returns results in JSON or XML.

Review the World Bank API Terms of Use.

TheMiddleClass.org Scorecard Data

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:43:15 -0400

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

Notices from the London Gazette

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:12:36 -0400

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 -0400

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

Geographically Based Economic Data (G-Econ)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:39:17 -0400

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/

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Data

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:51:30 -0400

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

IRS Income Tax Data

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:55:13 -0400

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 -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/

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:05:56 -0400

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

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

Bureau of Economic Analysis Data

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:01:12 -0400

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

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

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:00:19 -0400

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/

OECD.Stat

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:29:13 -0400

Search for and extract data from across the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's databases.

url: http://titania.sourceoecd.org/vl=2538876/cl=37/nw=1/rpsv/statistic/s36_about.htm?jnlissn=99991004

UNdata

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:29:31 -0400

Search United Nations data and download in XML, comma-separated values, semicolon-separated values and pipe-separated values formats.

url: http://data.un.org/

IMF Data and Statistics

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:49:19 -0400

Wide range of time series data on International Monetary Fund lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators. Tab-delimited values format.

url: http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm#data

World Bank Data Catalog

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:30:20 -0400

Economic and demographic growth data for countries around the world. The World Bank Data Catalog provides access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources.

url: http://data.worldbank.org/

New York City Property Sales

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:08:07 -0400

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

National Bureau of Economic Research

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:46:28 -0400

Large collection of datasets on the American economy.

url: http://www.nber.org/data/

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/

LaborSta

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:22:21 -0400

Datasets from the International Labour Organization. CSV format.

url: http://laborsta.ilo.org/

This Tract

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:58:01 -0500

This Tract is a view into U.S. Census data. It allows you to view the details of every tract.

It currently uses 2000 Census data but was built in anticipation of the forthcoming 2010 Census data release.

The source code is available on GitHub.

By Stamen Design's Michal Migurski and Craig Mod.

url: http://thistract.com/

Worldometers

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:21:18 -0500

Worldometers collects and displays real-time statistics on global population, government and economics, society and media, the environment, energy, food, water and health. Part of the Real Time Statistics Project.

Check out their many data sources.

url: http://www.worldometers.info

Census 2010 "Hard to Count" Interactive Maps

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:19:32 -0500

Maps the "hard to count" population nationwide to help organizations who are planning their outreach efforts for the 2010 Census.

The site provides interactive maps at the state, metropolitan area, county and tract level, along with detailed statistics for each area. You can search in various ways, and also add overlays showing Congressional districts, ZIP codes, tract-level maps of 2000 Census mail return rates, and recent foreclosure risk. An FAQ is available.

Submitted by Steven Romalewski

url: http://www.censushardtocountmaps.org/

The Decline: The Geography of a Recession

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:49:04 -0500

Interactive map showing the deterioration of the U.S. economy from January 2007 to September 2009. By LaToya Egwuekwe.

url: http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html

This We Know

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:22:41 -0400

Explore U.S. government data about your community. All data on the site is exposed as RDF that can be retrieved via the SPARQL Query Language. ThisWeKnow's long-term vision is to model the entire Data.gov catalog and make it available to the public as a large-scale online database using Semantic Web standards. By GreenRiver.org, Sway Design and Intellidimension.

Source code available under an MIT License.

url: http://www.thisweknow.org

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/

Interactive Map of the U.S. Recession

Sun, 10 May 2009 11:41:25 -0400

Interactive map showing unemployment numbers for each county in the U.S. from January 2007 to February 2009. By Slate Magazine.

url: http://www.slate.com/id/2216238/

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/

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/

Stimulus Watch

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:48:37 -0500

Find, view, sort and discuss local projects that are candidates for funding by United States federal grant programs when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passes. The projects come from the U.S. Conference of Mayors' Main Street Economic Recovery Report. Download dataset in Excel here.

url: http://stimuluswatch.org/

ReadTheStimulus.org

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:43:43 -0500

The text of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (House Stimulus Bill), made searchable with comments for each page enabled. Actual dollar appropriations from the bill have been parsed out by volunteers and entered into a Google spreadsheet.

url: http://readthestimulus.org

Campaign Finance Chart App

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:39:48 -0500

PHP app that uses the New York Times Campaign Finance API and the Google Chart API to create a snapshot of campaign finance data for a particular ZIP code.

url: http://developer.nytimes.com/app_fec

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

TheMiddleClass.org

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:36:09 -0400

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 -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/

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/

An Average Consumer's Spending

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:11:47 -0400

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

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/

Gapminder World

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:16:20 -0400

Animated visualization of statistical and historical data on the development of countries from 1950-2005.

url: http://www.gapminder.org/world

IMF Data Mapper

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:02:55 -0400

View IMF global economic data on an interactive map.

url: http://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/index.php

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/