Datamob: international

toronto.ca/open

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:50:39 -0500

The City of Toronto's official data set catalog. Data available in XML and ESRI Shapefile formats.

Transport for London API

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 22:23:20 -0400

Programmatically access information on all forms of public transport in London. The ‘Tube this weekend’ feed contains information on planned line and station closures for the coming weekend. The ’Station location’ feed is a geo-coded KML feed of most London Underground, Docklands Light Railway and London Overground stations. The 'Findaride' KML feed contains details of licensed London minicab and other private-hire operators. Registration required.

url: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/syndication/

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/

Etsy API

Sun, 10 May 2009 09:17:05 -0400

RESTful API for programmatically accessing Etsy, a global handmade marketplace. Provides access to data on users, shops, item listings, feedback, tags and categories, favorites and gift guides. Returns results in JSON. API key required.

Review the Etsy API Terms of Use.

url: http://developer.etsy.com

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.

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.

FARAdb: Foreign Agent Registration Act Database

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:25:13 -0500

The Foreign Agent Registration Act requires the U.S. Justice Department to maintain detailed reports of lobbying firms hired by foreign governments and by organizations controlled by foreign governments. FARAdb is a database of these reports, searchable by lobbying firm, client or member of Congress's office contacted. Data downloadable in CSV format.

A project of Sunlight Foundation.

url: http://fara.sunlightfoundation.com/

World Bank API

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:12:00 -0400

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.

Review the World Bank API Terms of Use.

New Zealand Legislation

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:34:42 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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 -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/

U.S. Census Bureau International Database

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:36:24 -0400

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 -0400

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 -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/

World Bank Data Catalog

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:30:20 -0400

Economic and demographic growth data for countries around the world. The World Bank Data Catalog provides access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources.

url: http://data.worldbank.org/

Refugee Flow Patterns in Kosovo, March-May 1999

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:44:06 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

Data on human rights violations in Timor-Leste.

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

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/

Open Economics Data Store

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:02:35 -0400

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 -0400

Datasets from the International Labour Organization. CSV format.

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

EuroStat

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:21:41 -0400

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 -0400

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/

Casual Earnings of German Parliamentarians

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:03:28 -0500

This site shows the casual earnings of the Members of the German Bundestag. The data is issued in unstructured, isolated lists by the Bundestag. This site scrapes, structures and aggregates the earnings to create a better overview for German citizens.

Sorry, but the site is in German only!

Submitted by Henning Wolf

url: http://www.nebeneinkuenfte-bundestag.de

Umbrella Today

Thu, 14 May 2009 19:30:16 -0400

Find out if you'll need an umbrella today, via text message, email or web.

url: http://umbrellatoday.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/

Kiva Alerts

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:55:40 -0500

url: http://kivaalerts.com

KivaMap

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:25:16 -0500

The KivaMap plots microfinance loans made around the world through Kiva, featuring details on the loans and the borrowers.

url: http://kivaworld.com/

Earthquake Heat Map

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:34:30 -0500

A heat map showing recent earthquakes, based on the USGS earthquake dataset.

Submitted by Sunil

url: http://sunild.com/proto/Earthquakes2/Earthquakes.html

Global Consumer Spending Map

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:51:19 -0400

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 -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

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/

Ease of Doing Business Map

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:22:15 -0400

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 -0400

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 -0400

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