Datamob: media

outside.in API

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:38:31 -0600

The outside.in API provides news articles, blog posts, tweets, and more within 1,000 feet of any latitude and longitude in XML or JSON format.

url: http://api.outside.in

The New York Times Movie Reviews API

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:46:13 -0500

Programmatically access over 22,000 New York Times movie reviews dating back to 1924. Data available in JSON, XML or serialized PHP. Registration required.

See the announcement on Open for more information.

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

Songs Sampled in Girl Talk's 'Feed the Animals'

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:59:10 -0500

Information about the 264 samples used in Girl Talk's Feed the Animals album, along with a few visualizations. CSV format. By Andy Baio.

url: http://waxy.org/2008/09/girl_turk/

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

Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN) API

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:54:07 -0500

RESTful API for querying the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network's database of "open knowledge" packages and projects.

url: http://www.ckan.net/api/rest/

BBC Backstage: Feeds & APIs

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:28:20 -0500

BBC TV and radio data, programme catalogue information, search API and more. Available for non-commercial use with attribution.

url: http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data/Data

NPR API

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:16:19 -0500

Query an archive of National Public Radio content dating back to 1995. Returns results in RSS, MediaRSS, JSON, Atom and custom NPRML formats.

See the announcement on NPR.org for more information.

url: http://www.npr.org/api/

LibraryThing Books API

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:12:15 -0500

JSON-based API for LibraryThing book data. Licensing is still being finalized.

url: http://www.librarything.com/blog/2008/07/introducing-librarything-books-api.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/

U.S. Copyright Renewal Records

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:25:17 -0500

U.S. copyright renewal records, downloadable as a single XML file. By Google software engineer Jarkko Hietaniemi. Public domain.

url: http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2008/06/us-copyright-renewal-records-available.html

BookMooch API

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:08:18 -0500

Query or download the database for BookMooch, a book exchange community. ASCII text and XML formats. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License.

url: http://bookmooch.com/api/

Star Wars Kid Data Dump

Sun, 25 May 2008 22:01:05 -0500

Data from Waxy.org's server logs concerning the initial spread of the Star Wars Kid viral video in 2003. Public domain.

url: http://waxy.org/2008/05/star_wars_kid_the_data_dump/

Open Library API

Sat, 24 May 2008 21:33:54 -0500

Query the Open Library database, the goal of which is to provide one web page for every book ever published.

url: http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api

Amazon ISBN Similarity Graph

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:36:18 -0500

Output of a crawl of Amazon.com's item similarity API from January 18, 2008 for ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers). ASCII text and XML. By Aaron Swartz.

url: http://www.archive.org/details/amazon_similarity_isbn/

Stanford Copyright Renewal Database

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:11:28 -0500

Downloadable dataset of 250,000 records on U.S. copyright renewal for books published between 1950 and 1995.

url: http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home

Metafilter Infodump

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:35:55 -0500

Collection of data culled from the Metafilter community weblog database: stats on Metafilter posts, comments, tags, favorites and users. ASCII text.

url: http://stuff.metafilter.com/infodump/

Network Datasets Compiled by Mark Newman

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:05:56 -0500

A collection of network datasets drawn from studies of human social networks, dolphin social networks, works of literature, power grids, books, blogs and more. Compiled by Mark Newman, professor of physics at the University of Michigan.

url: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/netdata/

White Glove Tracking Dataset

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:52:31 -0500

Data on the location and position of Michael Jackson's white glove in all 10,060 frames of his nationally televised 1983 performance of the song "Billie Jean."

url: http://www.whiteglovetracking.com/

Netflix Prize

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:48:22 -0500

"The Netflix Prize seeks to substantially improve the accuracy of predictions about how much someone is going to love a movie based on their movie preferences." Register to download the dataset.

url: http://www.netflixprize.com//index

Frequent Itemset Mining Dataset Repository

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:37:35 -0500

Anonymized clickstream data from a Hungarian news portal, anonymized retail market basket data from an anonymous Belgian retail store, anonymized traffic accident data and more.

url: http://fimi.cs.helsinki.fi/data/

Oscar-nominated Movie Piracy Data

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:35:50 -0500

Piracy data on all 186 Oscar-nominated films from 2003 to 2008. Compiled and published by Andy Baio.

url: http://waxy.org/2008/02/pirating_the_20_2/

near.ly

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:41:56 -0600

Near.ly sends you Twitter direct messages linking to news and blog posts within 1,000 feet of your address.

url: http://near.ly

Map of Newspaper Endorsements in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:11:05 -0500

Map of newspaper endorsements in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, using data from Editor & Publisher's list. By Philip (Flip) Kromer.

url: http://infochimps.org/static/gallery/politics/endorsements_map/endorsements_map.html

CrunchBase WordPress Plugin

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:57:46 -0500

Plugin for the WordPress weblog platform designed to enable easy insertion of CrunchBase company profiles into blog posts. By Vaibhav Gadodia.

url: http://blog.gadodia.net/crunchbase-api-wordpress-plugin/

Ramazon

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:59:19 -0500

Ramazon uses the Flare Visualization Toolkit to create an interactive visualization of related items on Amazon.com. A follow-up to the Influence Viewer. By Martin Dudek.

url: http://goosebumps4all.net/ramazon/

Newsstream

Tue, 13 May 2008 14:29:27 -0500

A visualization of the waxing and waning popularity of news stories over time, using Google News clustering data. Written in Common Lisp, uses SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). By Eli Naeher.

url: http://newsstream.codeanddata.com

Amazon Book Map

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:58:57 -0500

Dense mosaic of over 700,000 book covers, color coded by book category and grouped together according to similarity. By Chris Harrison.

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

President Bush State of the Union Speech Sentence Diagrams

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:25:02 -0500

Diagrammatic expressions of the content of President George W. Bush's State of the Union Addresses. Offers contrasts between speeches made in different years. By David Sparks

url: http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/bushs-legacy-speaks-for-itself/

Interactive Netflix Prize Visualization

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:34:12 -0500

A visualization of the 17,700 movies that comprise the Netflix Prize competition dataset. By Todd Holloway.

url: http://abeautifulwww.com/2007/04/03/an-interactive-visualization-of-the-netflix-prize-dataset/

White Glove Tracking Visualization Gallery

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:53:37 -0500

Gallery of animations and visualizations created from the White Glove Tracking dataset of the location and position of Michael Jackson's white glove during his nationally televised performance of "Billie Jean."

url: http://www.whiteglovetracking.com/