Datamob: international

World Bank API

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:12:00 -0500

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.

url: http://developer.worldbank.org/

New Zealand Legislation

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:34:42 -0500

Text of New Zealand Acts, Bills and Regulations. Their RSS feed can be put to good use.

submitted by: Rob McKinnon

url: http://legislation.govt.nz/

Geographically Based Economic Data (G-Econ)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:39:17 -0500

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/

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:05:56 -0500

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

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

AMEE API

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:27:36 -0500

Query the AMEE ("Avoiding Mass Extinctions Engine") database of CO2 data and measure the carbon footprint of anything.

url: http://trac.co2.dgen.net/wiki/AmeeApi

Open Street Map

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:23:38 -0500

Free editable map of the earth, exportable in XML. Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 2.0 license.

url: http://openstreetmap.org/

USGS Earthquake Data

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:03:23 -0500

Latest earthquake data, available in CSV, XML, KML and Cube formats.

url: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/catalogs/

GeoNames Geographical Database

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:58:44 -0500

Comprehensive geographical name database. Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Tab-delimited text format.

url: http://www.geonames.org/about.html

Doing Business: Full Data

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:21:50 -0500

Data on business regulations and their enforcement across 178 countries and selected cities. A project of the World Bank. Tables downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.doingbusiness.org/CustomQuery/

Bureau of Economic Analysis Data

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:01:12 -0500

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

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

OECD.Stat

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:29:13 -0500

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

UNESCO Institute for Statistics Data Centre

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:09:40 -0500

Data on education, literacy, science and technology, culture and communication from UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), downloadable in Microsoft Excel, comma-delimited ASCII and semicolon-delimited ASCII formats.

url: http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/tableviewer/document.aspx?ReportId=143

CIA World Factbook

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:57:37 -0500

Public-domain information about the countries of the world from the U.S. government, downloadable as a compressed Zip of HTML files.

url: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

UNdata

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:29:31 -0500

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

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

U.S. Census Bureau International Database

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:36:24 -0500

Demographic data and population pyramids for countries around the world, available in ASCII text.

url: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/summaries.html

IMF Data and Statistics

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:49:19 -0500

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

UNEP Global Environment Outlook Data Portal

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:31:03 -0500

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/

World Bank Data & Statistics

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:30:20 -0500

Economic and demographic growth data for countries around the world, downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/DATASTATISTICS/0,,contentMDK:20535285~menuPK:1192694~pagePK:64133150~piPK:64133175~theSitePK:239419,00.html

Refugee Flow Patterns in Kosovo, March-May 1999

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:44:06 -0500

A collection of datasets on the flow of refugees from Kosovo during the 1999 war between NATO and Yugoslavia.

url: http://shr.aaas.org/kosovo/index.html

Human Rights Data Analysis Group: Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:42:22 -0500

Data on human rights violations in Sierra Leone.

url: http://hrdag.org/resources/SL-TRC_data.html

Human Rights Data Analysis Group: Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:40:48 -0500

Data on human rights violations in Timor-Leste.

url: http://www.hrdag.org/resources/timor-leste_data.shtml

World Health Organization Statistical Information System

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:26:37 -0500

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

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

Open Economics Data Store

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:02:35 -0500

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 -0500

Datasets from the International Labour Organization. CSV format.

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

EuroStat

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:21:41 -0500

Large variety of datasets about the European Union.

url: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?_pageid=1090,30070682,1090_33076576&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

MONDIAL database

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:21:00 -0500

Geographical database compiled from the CIA World Factbook and other sources. RDF, XML and other formats.

url: http://www.dbis.informatik.uni-goettingen.de/Mondial/

Global Consumer Spending Map

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:51:19 -0500

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

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

Supporting Evidence

Sat, 24 May 2008 22:07:41 -0500

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

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

Ease of Doing Business Map

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:22:15 -0500

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/

Internet Map

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:33:48 -0500

Set of visualizations showing how cities around the world are interconnected via internet router configurations. 89,344 connections mapped in all. By Chris Harrison.

url: http://www.chrisharrison.net/projects/InternetMap/index.html

DBpedia Mobile

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:05:26 -0500

Based on the current GPS position of a mobile device, DBpedia Mobile renders a map containing information about nearby locations. Supports 14 languages and various filters.

url: http://wiki.dbpedia.org/DBpediaMobile