Datamob: history

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

Freebase Data Dumps

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:06:28 -0500

Full data dumps of the Freebase shared database of the world's knowledge. Available in tab-separated values format and a low-level link export suitable for converting into RDF or XML. Creative Commons Attribution license.

See also: Freebase API and Freebase Wikipedia Extraction (WEX).

url: http://download.freebase.com/datadumps/

Freebase API

Wed, 07 May 2008 20:50:45 -0500

Query the Freebase shared database of the world's knowledge via a JSON-based query language.

url: http://www.freebase.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000544e14d

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

Influence Viewer

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:43:02 -0500

Influence Viewer uses the Flare Visualization Toolkit to create an interactive visualization of the Influence domain in Freebase, showing who has influenced whom. By Martin Dudek.

url: http://goosebumps4all.net/goi/

Thinkbase

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:19:59 -0500

Thinkbase uses Thinkmap software to create an interactive visual representation of the semantic relationships in Freebase. Presents a paned view with Freebase on the right and a graphical representation of the topics in that Freebase page on the left. By Christian Hirsch.

url: http://thinkbase.cs.auckland.ac.nz/

Free Influencer

Sun, 25 May 2008 19:48:10 -0500

See who has influenced whom according to the Freebase database of notable people. By Albertine Meunier, Jérôme Alexandre and Cornelius Reed.

url: http://www.we-love-the.net/FreeInfluencer/

Baby Name Voyager

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:00:25 -0500

Visualization of child name popularity over time.

url: http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

Trulia Hindsight

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:45:35 -0500

Maps of U.S. properties over time, showing the growth of streets, neighborhoods and cities.

url: http://hindsight.trulia.com/