Datamob: health

Farmers' Market API

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:46:34 -0500

Programmatic access to information about all the farmers' markets in the United States, via the USDA.

By Code for America fellow John Mertens.

url: http://codeforamerica.org/2011/08/08/farmers-market-api/

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/

CalorieKing API

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:44:03 -0500

The CalorieKing API provides nutritional information from the CalorieKing food database via SOAP or REST interfaces. Free up to 20,000 queries a month.

url: http://www.calorieking.com/webservices/

Ensembl Genome Data

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:26:34 -0500

The Ensembl project produces genome databases for vertebrates and other eukaryotic species, and makes this information freely available online. Data can be downloaded in a variety of formats, from flat files to MySQL dumps.

Freely available for use under an Apache-style license.

url: http://www.ensembl.org/info/data/intro.html

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/

Google Flu Trends

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:48:09 -0500

Download Google's weekly influenza-like illness (ILI) estimates for the United States in plain text or CSV format. Data is provided for each individual state, the nine influenza surveillance regions, and the entire United States.

url: http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/download.html

National Center for Health Statistics Data Warehouse

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:10:47 -0400

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

Kaiser State Health Facts

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:46:00 -0400

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

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

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/

UNEP Global Environment Outlook Data Portal

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:31:03 -0400

Datasets used by United Nations Environment Programme and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report, covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Data can be displayed as maps, graphs or tables and downloaded in various formats.

url: http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/

WHO Statistical Information System

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:26:37 -0400

Comprehensive health data on all of the 193 World Health Organization Member States.

url: http://www.who.int/whosis/en/

DontEat.at

Mon, 30 May 2011 20:57:11 -0400

Get a text message when you check in to a New York City restaurant that is at risk of being closed for health code violations.

A winner of NYC Big Apps 2.0.

By Max Stoller.

url: http://donteat.at/

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

Playaround NYC

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:28:40 -0500

PlayaroundNYC was created to help New Yorkers see how well their neighborhoods are supported by playgrounds. It uses walking distance to playgrounds and pollution caused by nearby truck routes to generate an overview of how well different areas of New York City are supported by playgrounds. An interactive map allows users to determine the proximity and quality of nearby playgrounds in all five boroughs.

Uses the following NYC Data Mine datasets: Directory of Playgrounds, Borough & Community Districts; and GIS: Boroughs.

By Noel Billig.

url: http://www.playaroundnyc.com/

NYC Way

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:17:05 -0500

NYC Way is an iPhone application that bundles a variety of local resources useful for residents and tourists alike. It happens to be one of the first mobile apps to combine a wide variety of datasets from NYC.gov (along with various third-party datasets), location awareness and social media. Experience the power of 30+ NYC-related iPhone apps packaged into one.

Based around the theme of making our government more transparent, NYC Way is a first step to help NYC.gov share their rich datasets with the rest of us. It uses various datasets from NYC Data Mine, and many others available via NYC.gov.

NYC Way is location-aware and provides you with information sorted by proximity. The app allows you to update your Facebook status or send out a tweet about any place you discovered or visited.

In an upcoming release, we plan to implement real-time location v/s interest analysis, and hook the app up to a sophisticated Complex Event Processing backend that will correlate user interests and actions with current situation and location to make valuable local recommendations.

NYC Way includes all of the following and more:

Nearest wifi hotspot locations
NYC restaurant inspection results
Major NYC tourist attractions
NYC street eats (NYC street vendors)
NYC coffee shops
NYC gadget stores
NYC events
NYC live traffic cams and traffic updates
NYC subway station locations and alerts
NYC police stations, wanted criminals, average emergency response times, ERs and more
Nearest waste disposal sites and waste collection schedules
Nearest post offices, 24-hour pharmacies, Zipcar locations
Swine flu vaccination locator, parking ticket search, can I park here
Volunteer opportunities
NYC local news including the New York Times, New York Post and WNBC
NYC recreation information including ice-skating rinks, zoos, aquariums and museums

Submitted by Shariq

url: http://www.nycway.com

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/

Worldmapper

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:28:43 -0400

A collection of cartograms, maps in which territories are resized according to measures like population, poverty, religion.

url: http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html