Datamob: history

New York City Baby Name Data

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:23:42 -0500

Two CSV files available for download: all New York City baby names dating back to 1920, and New York City baby names broken down by ethnicity, dating back to 1990.

Data supplied by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, compiled by Jennifer 8. Lee for the New York Times City Room Blog.

url: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/jayden-is-the-no-1-baby-boys-name-in-the-city/

The Supreme Court Database

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:53:45 -0500

The Supreme Court Database contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided by the Court between the 1953 and 2008 terms. Examples include the identity of the court whose decision the Supreme Court reviewed, the parties to the suit, the legal provisions considered in the case, and the votes of the Justices. Available for download in CSV, R Data Format, XSLX and more.

url: http://scdb.wustl.edu/index.php

Museum of London API

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:41:09 -0500

REST API for programmatic access to the following data sources: publications from the Museum of London Archaeology Service; events at the Museum of London, Museum in Docklands, and London Archaeological Archive and Resource Centre; a latitude/longitude converter for Ordnance Survey of Great Britain grid references; and the photoLondon database. Returns results in XML and KML. No API key or registration needed.

url: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museumoflondon/food/rest.aspx

Chronicling America API

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:43:49 -0400

Open programmatic access to information about historic American newspapers (1690-present) and select digitized newspaper pages (1880-1922). Returns results in Atom or Linked Data via RDF. Searching newspaper pages is also possible via OpenSearch. No API key or registration needed.

Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

url: http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/about/api/

New York City Subway Ridership, 1905-2006

Mon, 18 May 2009 19:28:57 -0400

Download a spreadsheet containing the annual registrations, or recorded entries, at each station in the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority subway system from 1905-2006. Posted by Michael Frumin.

url: http://frumin.net/ation/2009/05/spark_it_up.html

The New York Times Best Sellers API

Sat, 09 May 2009 19:56:51 -0400

Access data from all New York Times best-seller lists including rank history for specific best sellers. Four request types are available: get a best-seller list, search best-seller lists, get the history of a best seller and get the names of Times best-seller lists.

url: http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/best_sellers_api

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/

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

Freebase Data Dumps

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:06:28 -0400

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 -0400

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

See also: Freebase Data Dumps and Freebase Acre

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

NYC Subway Ridership Map

Mon, 18 May 2009 19:54:08 -0400

An interactive map of the New York City subway system showing ridership trends from 1905-2006. Ridership levels are indicated by subway line thickness, and you can use the slider in the lower right to navigate through time. Map powered by Modest Maps. By Sha Hwang.

More information here.

url: http://diametunim.com/shashi/nyc_subways/

Subway Sparklines

Mon, 18 May 2009 19:42:48 -0400

A map of the New York City subway system with sparklines showing ridership trends for each station from 1905-2006. By Michael Frumin.

url: http://transit.frumin.net/subway/spark.php

Genealogy Viewer

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:29:02 -0500

Shows the ancestors, descendants, and birth and death dates of notable people on Freebase.

url: http://genealogy.alexander.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/

Olympic Medal Count Map

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:24:38 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

Visualization of child name popularity over time.

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

Trulia Hindsight

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:45:35 -0400

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

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