Datamob: education

Unofficial Hacker News API

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:44:49 -0400

Programmatic access to Hacker News stories, comments and votes. Originally developed for iHackerNews, a mobile version of Hacker News. Returns data in JSON; JSONP and XML coming soon.

By Ronnie Roller.

url: http://api.ihackernews.com/

thingISBN

Sat, 09 May 2009 11:31:35 -0400

thingISBN is a simple API for discovering related editions from LibraryThing, which calls it a tool for "edition disambiguation." Give it an ISBN and it returns a list of other ISBNs—different formats, translations, and more in XML.

The entire dataset is also available in one feed at http://www.librarything.com/feeds/thingISBN.xml.gz.

For more information see the thingISBN category on the Thingology blog.

url: http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2006/06/introducing-thingisbn_14.php

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.

Brooklyn Museum API

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:35:28 -0400

RESTful API for programmatically searching the Brooklyn Museum's digitized collection of more than 10,000 individual works. Free for non-commercial use with a limit of 3,000 API calls a day.

Review the Brooklyn Museum API Terms of Use.

url: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/api/

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:47:26 -0400

Download zipped CSVs of admission and enrollment information about all U.S. colleges, including cost of attendance and room and board charges; selectivity, average SAT/ACT scores, and other admissions considerations; enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by gender, ethnicity, and age; degrees conferred by program and award level; number of students receiving financial aid; salaries, tenure, and benefits of full-time faculty; and full- and part-time staff by occupation. Data is available from 1980-present.

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

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.

LibraryThing Web Services API

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:21:56 -0400

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

Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) API

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:54:07 -0400

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

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

BBC Backstage: Feeds & APIs

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:28:20 -0400

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

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

NPR API

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:16:19 -0400

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/

National Center for Education Statistics

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:32:46 -0400

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

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

Big Apple Ed

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:15:55 -0500

Big Apple Ed helps students, parents and teachers find out about New York City schools in one place by pulling together information from disparate sources, including view testing data, contact information, suspension rates and student/teacher ratios.

Third Place Overall Winner of the NYC Big Apps competition. Uses the School Search (NYC DOE) dataset from NYC Data Mine.

By Jonathan Soma, Adda Birnir and Kate Reyes.

url: http://www.bigappleed.com

softcover

Sat, 09 May 2009 11:37:11 -0400

Softcover is kind enough to email you when books come out in paperback. By Jonathan Soma.

url: http://softcover.xoxosoma.com/

Social Actions Tuner

Sat, 09 May 2009 10:39:48 -0400

A tool for finding the volunteer and donation opportunities you're interested in more quickly. By Ehren Foss, David Petersen and Jake Hofman.

Source code available via SVN.

url: http://satuner.preludeinteractive.com/

Social Actions for Twitter Trends

Sat, 09 May 2009 10:19:01 -0400

A web service which matches the latest trending topics on Twitter with related actions for good causes on Social Actions.

url: http://trends.emerich.de/

MyChances.net

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:49:29 -0400

MyChances lets students compare their SAT scores, GPA, and other relevant metrics to the aggregate statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics for all U.S. colleges to determine their chances of admission.

Submitted by James Pirruccello

url: http://www.mychances.net/

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/

Supporting Evidence

Sat, 24 May 2008 22:07:41 -0400

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

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