Datamob: usa

Farmers' Market API

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:46:34 -0500

Programmatic access to information about all the farmers' markets in the United States, via the USDA.

By Code for America fellow John Mertens.

url: http://codeforamerica.org/2011/08/08/farmers-market-api/

Open State Project

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:39:32 -0500

The Open State Project collects and makes available data about U.S. state legislative activities, including bill summaries, votes, sponsorships, legislators and committees. This data is gathered directly from the states and made available in a common format for interested developers, through a RESTful API and regular data dump.

A project of Sunlight Labs.

url: http://openstates.sunlightlabs.com/

FCC License View API and Dataset

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:15:02 -0400

The FCC issues licenses for use of the United States' airwaves and other purposes. The FCC License View API provides snapshots such as the number of licenses across different services, how many licenses different entities have, and how many licenses are up for renewal in the near future.

Sample call:

http://data.fcc.gov/api/license-view/basicSearch/getLicenses?searchValue=Verizon%20Wireless&format=jsonp&callback=?

The complete set of data in the License View database is also available for download.

url: http://reboot.fcc.gov/developer/license-view-api

Consumer Broadband Test API

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:05:12 -0400

Returns the Consumer Broadband Test speed test statistics for a U.S. County given the passed Latitude and Longitude. The statistics are grouped into wireline and wireless and are the number of tests, average download speed, average upload speed, maximum download speed and maximum upload speed. This data is calculated nightly and includes all tests to date performed through the consumer broadband test.

From the Federal Communications Commission.

url: http://reboot.fcc.gov/developer/consumer-broadband-test-api

Transparency Data

Sat, 15 May 2010 05:02:18 -0400

Transparency Data, a service from the Sunlight Foundation, is a central source for federal lobbyist registrations and federal and state campaign contributions. This tool is focused on giving people bulk access to U.S. government data in CSV format.

The Transparency Data API is also available for programmatic access to the data.

The current data on the site comes from Open Secrets and Follow the Money.

url: http://transparencydata.com/

Census 2000 Planning Database

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:07:16 -0500

The Tract Level Planning Database With Census 2000 Data is a database that assembles a range of housing, demographic and socioeconomic variables that are correlated with mail nonresponse. Using data from U.S. Census 2000, a database containing these variables has been developed for all census tracts in the country.

The variables included in the Tract Level Planning Database With Census 2000 Data (also called the planning database, or PDB) were guided by extensive research conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and others to measure census coverage and to identify reasons people are missed in the census (de la Puente, 1993). The variables include housing indicators (percent renters, multi-units, crowded housing, lack of telephones, vacancy) and person indicators (poverty, not high school graduate, unemployed, complex households, mobility, language isolation, public assistance income). Other operational and demographic data are also included (such as race/ethnic distributions). Using the 1990 Census as the initial source, a database containing these variables was developed for all tracts in the country for use in the planning, implementation and evaluation of Census 2000 (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1999). The PDB contains “hard-to-count” (HTC) scores which summarize the attributes of each tract or block group in terms of enumeration difficulty.

For download (XLS) below.

Submitted by Steven Romalewski

url: http://2010.census.gov/partners/xls/Tract_Level_PDB_Version2.xls

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 New York State Senate Open Legislation Service

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:22:24 -0500

Browse, search and download legislative information from the New York State Senate. Structured legislative information available in XML, CSV and JSON formats.

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

url: http://open.nysenate.gov/legislation/

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

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/

OpenCongress API

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:18:51 -0400

Programmatic access to all the data on OpenCongress, from official bill information to user-generated votes on bills. API key required.

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

Target Store Openings, 1962-2008

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:46:54 -0400

A list of the store numbers, opening dates and locations of Target retail stores in the U.S., from 1962-2008.

url: http://flowingdata.com/2009/10/22/target-store-openings-since-the-first-in-1962-data-now-available/

LittleSis API

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:41:20 -0400

The LittleSis API exposes the raw data used on the LittleSis website, and consists of basic information about powerful individuals and organizations ("entities"), and the relationships between them. Returns results in XML or JSON. API key required.

url: http://api.littlesis.org/

Data.gov: Airline On-Time Performance

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:20:27 -0400

Data derived from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics containing on-time arrival data for non-stop domestic flights by major air carriers. Also contains departure and arrival delays, origin and destination airports, flight numbers, scheduled and actual departure and arrival times, cancelled or diverted flights, taxi-out and taxi-in times, air time and non-stop distance. Available in Microsoft Excel and CSV formats.

url: http://www.data.gov/details/123

MAPLight Bill Positions API

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:15:34 -0400

Query MAPLight.org's original research on supporting and opposing interests for U.S. legislative bills. Returns results in JSON or XML.

url: http://maplight.org/apis/bill_positions

CorpWatch API

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:31:49 -0400

The CorpWatch API uses automated parsers to extract the subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies' 10-K filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, providing a free, well-structured interface for programs to query and process the data. By Skye Bender-deMoll and Greg Michalec.

A project of CorpWatch, funded by a grant from the Sunlight Foundation.

url: http://api.corpwatch.org/

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

White House 2 API

Sun, 10 May 2009 18:21:22 -0400

Get XML feeds of the priorities suggested for President Obama by users of White House 2. The API is not fully documented but can be accessed by appending .xml to most pages on White House 2.

url: http://feedback.whitehouse2.org/pages/4667-make-white-house-2-awesome

Unofficial Chicago Transit Authority API

Sun, 10 May 2009 12:19:33 -0400

An unofficial, RESTful API for the Chicago Transit Authority. Get data for bus locations and routes. Results returned in XML. By Harper Reed.

url: http://chicagowiki.transitapi.com/Home

Party Time Data Pack

Sat, 09 May 2009 18:41:13 -0400

Download a CSV of the data powering Party Time, the Sunlight Foundation's political partying database which tracks parties for members of Congress and congressional candidates.

url: http://politicalpartytime.org/data/all/

Federal Reserve Economic Data API

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:45:20 -0400

RESTful API for retrieving economic data from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) and ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data (ALFRED) websites hosted by the Economic Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Requests can be customized according to data source, release, category, series and other preferences. API key required.

url: http://api.stlouisfed.org/docs/fred/

The New York Times New York State Legislature API

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:39:04 -0400

Get lists of New York State Senate and Assembly members, member details and committee information, and bill summaries and details. The data is updated twice daily from the New York State Assembly’s bill search function.

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

California VoterConnect Geographic Political Data Repository

Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:43:22 -0400

Access KML files of State Senate, Assembly and Congressional Districts, as well as individual precincts, for all of California. Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

url: http://cavoterconnect.com/pub/kml/

Integrated Postsecondary Education Data

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:47:26 -0400

Download zipped CSVs of admission and enrollment information about all U.S. colleges, including cost of attendance and room and board charges; selectivity, average SAT/ACT scores, and other admissions considerations; enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by gender, ethnicity, and age; degrees conferred by program and award level; number of students receiving financial aid; salaries, tenure, and benefits of full-time faculty; and full- and part-time staff by occupation. Data is available from 1980-present.

url: http://nces.ed.gov/ipedspas/

GOP.gov API

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:02:52 -0500

The GOP.gov API provides biographical, contact, and voting information about Republican members of Congress; contact information and member listings for House of Representatives committees; and information on bills and votes in XML. Nearly RESTful; requires an API key which is tied to a GOP Portfolio account.

url: http://www.gop.gov/api

Yahoo! Traffic API

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:31:17 -0500

The Yahoo! Traffic API provides traffic alerts for U.S. locations. Alerts can be requested with city/state/zip or latitude/longitude and a search radius in miles. Results are returned in XML and can include a map image.

url: http://developer.yahoo.com/traffic/rest/V1/index.html

New York Times Congress API Ruby Wrapper with Congresh Shell

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:56:14 -0500

An easy Ruby wrapper for the New York Times Congress API. Also provides a command shell called Congresh for interacting with the API directly. Available for download under an MIT License.

Submitted by Patrick Ewing

url: http://github.com/hoverbird/ny-times-congress/tree/master

Enron Email Mailbox PST Dataset

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:38:19 -0500

This refined version of the CALO Enron Email Dataset is available as 148 PST files, complete with original folder structure, to preserve user information associated with the emails. Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.

Submitted by John Wang

url: http://enrondata.org

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/

Capitol Words API

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:04:47 -0500

The Capitol Words API provides several methods of accessing detailed information from the Capitol Words database of word frequency from the U.S. Congressional Record. Returns results in JSON and XML.

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

Mobile Commons Legislative Lookup API

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:37:39 -0500

Database that matches latitude and longtitude with the U.S. congressional and state legislators for that location. Available as an API and as a standalone Rails application for download under an MIT License. By Mobile Commons.

url: http://mcommons.com/developers/legislative-lookup

MassGIS

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:00:13 -0500

Geographic and environmental data available for download from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts's Geographic Information System. Base map data includes roads, topographic features, and political boundaries. Other data includes crime and demographic data sliced geographically. MassGIS distributes vector data in Shapefile format and raster (image) data in TIFF, MrSID, JPEG 2000 and ERDAS Imagine formats.

url: http://www.mass.gov/mgis/

USDA Economic Research Service Datasets

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:39:52 -0500

Over 100 datasets from the United States Department of Agriculture, ranging from information about food availability in the U.S. to stats on the costs of specific agricultural products, like fertilizer and milk. Most data available for download as XLS.

url: http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/

The New York Times Congress API

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:21:53 -0500

Get biographical information on Congresspeople dating back to 1947 and voting records dating back to 1989 in JSON and XML. Based on information from THOMAS, senate.gov, and house.gov.

Read the announcement on Open for more information.

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

BART API

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:58:39 -0500

Developer-friendly real-time estimated time of arrival (ETA) feeds, transit schedules, advisory feeds and trip planning information for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. RESTful API returning results in XML. Licensed under a simple License Agreement with no usage limitations.

url: http://bart.gov/developers

Google Flu Trends

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:48:09 -0500

Download Google's weekly influenza-like illness (ILI) estimates for the United States in plain text or CSV format. Data is provided for each individual state, the nine influenza surveillance regions, and the entire United States.

url: http://www.google.org/about/flutrends/download.html

outside.in API

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:38:31 -0500

The Outside.in API lets you easily integrate hyperlocal news in your sites and applications by providing recent news stories and blog posts for any neighborhood, ZIP code, city, or state in the United States in JSON.

url: http://developers.outside.in

The New York Times Campaign Finance API

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:07:24 -0400

Retrieve political campaign contribution and expenditure data based on United States Federal Election Commission filings. Data available in JSON, XML or serialized PHP. Registration required.

See the announcement on Open for more information.

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

TheMiddleClass.org Scorecard Data

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:43:15 -0400

Download TheMiddleClass.org's scorecard data for U.S. legislation calculated according to potential impact on the middle class. CSV format.

url: http://themiddleclass.org/csv

NPR API

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:16:19 -0400

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/

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Data

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:51:30 -0400

Downloadable datasets from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Policy Development and Research office, including data on fair market rents, the American Housing Survey, USPS vacancies and Government Sponsored Enterprises (GSE). Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.huduser.org/datasets/pdrdatas.html

U.S. Copyright Renewal Records

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:25:17 -0400

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

National Center for Health Statistics Data Warehouse

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:10:47 -0400

Downloadable data on U.S. health topics including vital statistics, aging, immunization, health care and nutrition.

url: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/datawh/ftpserv/ftpdata/ftpdata.htm

U.S. Lobbying Databases

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:58:38 -0400

Lobbyist information, made available by the U.S. Senate Office of Public Records in accordance with the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA). XML format.

url: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/Public_Disclosure/database_download.htm

IRS Income Tax Data

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:55:13 -0400

ZIP Code Area tables for tax years 2002, 2004 and 2005 from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service's Statistics of Income (SOI) program, which uses the Federal tax system as a comprehensive source of economic and financial information. Microsoft Excel format. Public domain.

url: http://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/soi_zipcode_data/

The Federal Reserve Board Statistics

Fri, 30 May 2008 20:29:53 -0400

Releases and historical data from the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Most tables available in tab-delimited text and/or CSV formats.

url: http://www.federalreserve.gov/Releases/

MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill Research

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:27:04 -0400

The 400+ interest categories used by MAPLight.org, the National Institute on Money in State Politics (Follow the Money) and the Center for Responsive Politics (Open Secrets) to categorize political campaign contributions. Bill research used by MAPLight. Originally contributed by MAPLight to Watchdog.net. Microsoft Excel and CSV formats.

See also: MAPLight API.

url: http://watchdog.net/data/crawl/maplight/

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/

Civic Footprint API

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:02:10 -0400

Look up the political geography of any address in Cook County, Illinois.

url: http://www.civicfootprint.org/about/api

Who Is My Representative API

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:37:50 -0400

Call Who Is My Representative PHP scripts directly with ZIP code information and have XML or JSON returned with information on the corresponding representation in U.S. Congress.

url: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/api/

Rhode Island GovTracker API

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:07:56 -0400

RESTful API from the Rhode Island Secretary of State's eGovernment and IT Divison, offering access to basic information on state elected and appointed officials, committees, proposed rules and regulations and other local government information.

url: http://www.state.ri.us/govtracker/services/

MAPLight Candidates Financial Summary API

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:48:51 -0400

Query U.S. House and Senate candidate funding data from MAPLight.org.

See also: MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill Research.

url: http://www.maplight.org/widgets/apis

Taxpayers for Common Sense Congressional Earmark Database

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:36:55 -0400

Comprehensive, downloadable database of U.S. Congressional earmarks. Provided by Taxpayers for Common Sense, an organization dedicated to cutting wasteful government spending. Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.taxpayer.net/

Libre Map Project

Fri, 02 May 2008 12:10:20 -0400

Free U.S. digital maps and geographic information system (GIS) data. Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 2.0 license.

url: http://libremap.org/

Watchdog.net API

Thu, 01 May 2008 08:33:10 -0400

Query the Watchdog.net U.S. political data hub in a variety of ways. The site is designed to be machine-readable as well as human-readable.

url: http://watchdog.net/about/api

Project Vote Smart API

Thu, 01 May 2008 07:57:00 -0400

Query Project Vote Smart's database of U.S. political candidates' voting records, campaign contributions, public statements, biographies and special-interest group ratings.

url: http://www.votesmart.org/services_api.php

Stanford Copyright Renewal Database

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:11:28 -0400

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

U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line Data

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:23:03 -0400

Data files for the U.S. Census Bureau's experiment in web-based mapping: the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) system. Shapefile format.

url: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/

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

Kaiser State Health Facts

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:46:00 -0400

Health data on U.S. states, downloadable in Microsoft Excel and tab-delimited ASCII text formats.

url: http://www.statehealthfacts.org/

National Center for Education Statistics

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:32:46 -0400

Tables and figures on education in the U.S., including state-specific tables. Downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://nces.ed.gov/quicktables/

U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:20:40 -0400

U.S. crime data, much of it downloadable in CSV and ASCII formats.

url: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/welcome.html

U.S. Census Data

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:04:30 -0400

Variety of tools for accessing U.S. Census data, including direct file access.

url: http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html

FAA Data & Statistics

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:11:27 -0400

U.S. aviation data, downloadable in ASCII text and Microsoft Excel formats.

url: http://www.faa.gov/data_statistics/

National Bridge Inventory Data

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:56:55 -0400

Data on 600,000 U.S. bridges. ASCII text.

url: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi/ascii.cfm

Voteview

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:17:10 -0400

U.S. Senate and House roll call data and other political data compiled by Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal. ASCII text.

url: http://voteview.com/

Zillow U.S. Neighborhood Boundary Data

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:55:49 -0400

Data on the boundaries of 7,000 U.S. urban neighborhoods. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license. Arc Shapefile format.

url: http://www.zillow.com/labs/NeighborhoodBoundaries.htm

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 08:00:19 -0400

The U.S. Census Bureau's comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States. Many tables downloadable in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

Law Commons

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:26:02 -0400

Source files and information on AltLaw.org, the full-text searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court and Federal Appellate case reports. Case reports are downloadable via FTP.

url: http://lawcommons.org/trac/

USGS Mineral Resources Data

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:37:16 -0400

Collection of downloadable datasets on mineral resources in the U.S.

url: http://tin.er.usgs.gov/

Legislative Council of California Bill Index

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:08:08 -0400

California legislative data, available in ASCII text.

url: http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/bilindex.html

U.S. Federal Election Commission Campaign Finance Data

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:15:29 -0400

U.S. political campaign finance data, downloadable in comma-delimited ASCII text.

See also the Maplight API and New York Times Campaign Finance API.

url: http://www.fec.gov/disclosure.shtml

San Francisco Building Permit Activity

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:30:38 -0400

Building permits issued or applied for as reported by the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI), published in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.sfgov.org/site/dbi_page.asp?id=30605

New York City Sign Permit Actions

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:17:24 -0400

Applications for sign permits in New York City. Published by the New York City Department of Buildings in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dob/html/guides/weekly.shtml#sign

New York City Property Sales

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:08:07 -0400

Property sales reported by the New York City Department of Finance. Data is updated monthly and published in Microsoft Excel format.

url: http://www.nyc.gov/html/dof/html/property/property_val_sales.shtml

Follow the Money API

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:38:19 -0400

Web framework for accessing the National Institute on Money in State Politics' database of all campaign contributions to political campaigns at the state level.

See also: MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill Research

url: http://www.followthemoney.org/services/index.phtml

LOUIS API

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:25:49 -0400

Web framework for accessing the 300,000 U.S. federal government documents that comprise the LOUIS database. The documents are scraped daily from the Government Printing Office website, GPOAccess.gov.

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

SunlightLabs API

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:51:11 -0400

Programmatic access to data inside and about the U.S. government.

url: http://services.sunlightlabs.com/

FedSpending.org

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:49:15 -0400

Access to U.S. government spending information. Data can be downloaded in comma-delimited ASCII text, tab-delimited ASCII text and XML, and there's an API as well.

url: http://www.fedspending.org/

SEC Corporate Ownership Linked Data, 2003-2006

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:48:34 -0400

Corporate ownership records (2003-2006) from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR database in open, linked RDF.

url: http://rdfabout.com/demo/sec/

SEC Filings (EDGAR)

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:53:00 -0400

Access to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings from public companies.

url: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml

Open Secrets

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:04:14 -0400

Data on money in U.S. politics, collected and published by the Center for Responsive Politics.

See also: MAPLight.org: Special Interest Categories and Bill Research

url: http://www.opensecrets.org/

USAspending.gov

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:49:57 -0400

Access to U.S. government contract, grant and other award data, downloadable in CSV and XML formats as well as via API.

url: http://www.usaspending.gov/

FedStats

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:25:57 -0400

Comprehensive source of U.S. statistical data.

url: http://www.fedstats.gov/

THOMAS

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:14:46 -0400

U.S. legislative information from the Library of Congress.

url: http://thomas.loc.gov/

Neighborhood Knowledge Los Angeles (NKLA) Data

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:11:08 -0400

Data on tax-delinquent properties and demographic information in Los Angeles, offered to help prevent housing conditions from deteriorating.

url: http://nkla.sppsr.ucla.edu/

Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:09:55 -0400

The Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse, also known as the DC Data Catalog, is a comprehensive collection of government activity data from the District of Columbia.

url: http://data.octo.dc.gov/

U.S. Public Transit Schedule Data

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:09:13 -0400

A list of U.S. transit schedule data published by transit agencies and operators in Google Transit Feed Specifcation (GTFS) format. They contain scheduled times, stop locations, route information and optionally fare information and detailed route shapes.

url: http://code.google.com/p/googletransitdatafeed/wiki/PublicFeeds

U.S. Census Bureau - 1990 Names

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:06:33 -0400

url: http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/names_files.html

Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care U.S. Hospital Performance Data

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:06:01 -0400

U.S. hospital performance and efficiency data.

url: http://www.dartmouthatlas.org/data/download.shtm

U.S. Trademark Data

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:05:26 -0400

url: http://bulk.resource.org/trademark/

U.S. Patents, 1983-2000

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:04:52 -0400

tar.gz collections of the full text of U.S. Patents from 1983 to 2000.

url: http://bulk.resource.org/patent/

U.S. Copyright Registration Records

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:03:16 -0400

Raw data from the U.S. Copyright Office of the Library of Congress.

url: http://bulk.resource.org/copyright/

GovTrack Government Activity Data

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:58:14 -0400

A directory of the datasets that power GovTrack.us. RDF, CSV and XML formats.

Learn more about the GovTrack backend.

url: http://wiki.govtrack.us/index.php/Data_Directory

2000 U.S. Census in RDF

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:20:19 -0400

By Joshua Tauberer.

url: http://www.rdfabout.com/demo/census/

Grassroutes STOP SOPA widget

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:43:31 -0500

A widget enabling visitors to your website call, email, Facebook and Tweet at their congressional representatives about the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).

By Drew Inglis, Nick Meyer and Tess Rinearson.

url: www.grassroutes.us/sopa

SOPA Opera

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:19:15 -0500

SOPA Opera tracks the who and the why of the Congressional debate on the on the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA).

By Dan Nguyen.

url: http://www.sopaopera.org/

SOPA Track

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:50:03 -0500

Find your local Representatives and Senators, how they plan to vote on the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA), and track their votes as they come in.

By Randy Meech.

url: http://sopatrack.com/

DontEat.at

Mon, 30 May 2011 20:57:11 -0400

Get a text message when you check in to a New York City restaurant that is at risk of being closed for health code violations.

A winner of NYC Big Apps 2.0.

By Max Stoller.

url: http://donteat.at/

Navajo Nation Water Quality Project

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:42:52 -0500

The Navajo Nation Water Quality Project makes Navajo Nation water quality information available for the first time online.

Many parts of the Navajo Indian reservation in the southwestern U.S. are contaminated with radioactive debris left over from Cold War uranium mining. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency did extensive water sampling in the 1990s to determine which Navajo water sources were contaminated and which were safe to drink from, but this data was never made available to the public in an accessible form. The Navajo Nation Water Quality project seeks to address that.

A joint project of Groundswell Educational Films and the Northwestern University Chemistry Department.

url: http://navajowater.org/

OpenGovernment

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:49:46 -0500

OpenGovernment is a public resource for government transparency at the state, city and local levels. Track bills, votes and people, and view campaign contribution data for state legislators.

The beta version contains information for legislatures in California, Louisiana, Maryland, Texas and Wisconsin.

Source code is available on GitHub, and the site's data sources are well documented.

A joint project of the Participatory Politics Foundation and the Sunlight Foundation.

url: http://opengovernment.org/

This Tract

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:58:01 -0500

This Tract is a view into U.S. Census data. It allows you to view the details of every tract.

It currently uses 2000 Census data but was built in anticipation of the forthcoming 2010 Census data release.

The source code is available on GitHub.

By Stamen Design's Michal Migurski and Craig Mod.

url: http://thistract.com/

Train Delay NYC

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:23:47 -0500

An iOS app for checking the status of New York City trains and buses.

By Scott Bossak.

url: http://traindelaynyc.com/

FlightCaster

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:56:33 -0400

FlightCaster is a mobile application that predicts flight delays, using an advanced algorithm that scours data on every U.S. domestic flight for the past 10 years and matches it to real-time conditions.

By FlightCaster, Inc.

url: http://flightcaster.com/

Ride the City

Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:16:48 -0400

Ride the City helps bicyclists find safe bike routes in major cities, including New York City, Chicago, Austin, San Diego, Seattle and Louisville.

Uses LION centerline data from NYC Data Mine.

By Vaidila Kungys and Jordan Anderson.

url: http://www.ridethecity.com/

Big Apple Ed

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:15:55 -0500

Big Apple Ed helps students, parents and teachers find out about New York City schools in one place by pulling together information from disparate sources, including view testing data, contact information, suspension rates and student/teacher ratios.

Third Place Overall Winner of the NYC Big Apps competition. Uses the School Search (NYC DOE) dataset from NYC Data Mine.

By Jonathan Soma, Adda Birnir and Kate Reyes.

url: http://www.bigappleed.com

Playaround NYC

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:28:40 -0500

PlayaroundNYC was created to help New Yorkers see how well their neighborhoods are supported by playgrounds. It uses walking distance to playgrounds and pollution caused by nearby truck routes to generate an overview of how well different areas of New York City are supported by playgrounds. An interactive map allows users to determine the proximity and quality of nearby playgrounds in all five boroughs.

Uses the following NYC Data Mine datasets: Directory of Playgrounds, Borough & Community Districts; and GIS: Boroughs.

By Noel Billig.

url: http://www.playaroundnyc.com/

Trees Near You

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:55:41 -0500

Trees Near You is an iPhone application that helps you learn about the more than 500,000 trees that live on New York City sidewalks. For any area of the city, from block to borough, you can see the different species that live there, and measure the environmental (and monetary!) benefits that these trees provide.

Winner of the Best Application Honorable Mention in the NYC Big Apps competition. Uses the following NYC Data Mine datasets: "Street Tree Census" files for all five boroughs, and "Neighborhood Names GIS" for neighborhood names centroids.

By Brett Camper.

url: http://www.treesnearyou.com/

Census 2010 "Hard to Count" Interactive Maps

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:19:32 -0500

Maps the "hard to count" population nationwide to help organizations who are planning their outreach efforts for the 2010 Census.

The site provides interactive maps at the state, metropolitan area, county and tract level, along with detailed statistics for each area. You can search in various ways, and also add overlays showing Congressional districts, ZIP codes, tract-level maps of 2000 Census mail return rates, and recent foreclosure risk. An FAQ is available.

Submitted by Steven Romalewski

url: http://www.censushardtocountmaps.org/

The Decline: The Geography of a Recession

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:49:04 -0500

Interactive map showing the deterioration of the U.S. economy from January 2007 to September 2009. By LaToya Egwuekwe.

url: http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html

tinyThom.as

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:28:50 -0500

THOMAS is the official database of United States Congress legislative information. Links on THOMAS expire, and they're long. tinyThom.as makes them permanent, and short, and also provides links to related content on OpenCongress and GovTrack. By Asa Hopkins.

url: http://tinythom.as/

Map of Target Growth

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:39:06 -0400

Animation showing the growth of Target retail stores in the U.S., from 1962-2008. Created with Modest Maps. By Nathan Yau of Flowing Data.

See also: Map of Wal-Mart Growth, the code for which is available under a BSD license.

url: http://projects.flowingdata.com/target/

California Stimulus Map

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:56:56 -0400

View information about projects in California known to have received funding from the federal government through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act). By Stamen Design.

Map data is available for download as a CSV.

url: http://www.recovery.ca.gov/HTML/RecoveryImpact/map.shtml

GovPulse

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:36:52 -0400

GovPulse provides access to a database of articles from the Federal Register, the official journal of the U.S. federal government. In the Federal Register, you'll find any kind of proposal, notification or solicitation for data that a federal agency puts out. Search articles and view by agency, date published, event date, topic or location.

Source code available under a GNU Affero General Public License.

url: http://govpulse.us/

This We Know

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:22:41 -0400

Explore U.S. government data about your community. All data on the site is exposed as RDF that can be retrieved via the SPARQL Query Language. ThisWeKnow's long-term vision is to model the entire Data.gov catalog and make it available to the public as a large-scale online database using Semantic Web standards. By GreenRiver.org, Sway Design and Intellidimension.

Source code available under an MIT License.

url: http://www.thisweknow.org

LittleSis

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:28:46 -0400

LittleSis is a free database detailing the connections between powerful people and organizations. It tracks the key relationships of politicians, corporate executives, lobbyists, financiers and their affiliated organizations. A project of the Public Accountability Initiative, supported by the Sunlight Foundation.

url: http://littlesis.org/

FlyOnTime.us

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:10:06 -0400

Find out how late your U.S. flight is on average or find the most on-time flight from one city to another. By Josh Sulkin.

The source code for FlyOnTime.us is licensed under an MIT License and available here. There is also a FlyOnTime.us API with data presented on the website available in JSON and XML formats.

url: http://www.flyontime.us/

CrocTail

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:49:22 -0400

Interface for browsing information about several hundred thousand U.S. publicly traded corporations and their foreign and domestic subsidiaries. Information from company Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings has been parsed and annotated to highlight specific corporate accountability issues. A project of CorpWatch.

url: http://croctail.corpwatch.org/

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

Where the Money Goes

Sun, 17 May 2009 09:47:38 -0400

A tool for visualizing the contributions that political action committees (PACs) make to members of U.S. Congress, and to each other. By Mark Goetz, Mike Harmala, Debra Lauterbach and Noah Liebman.

url: http://wherethemoneygoes.org/

Hello, Congress

Sun, 10 May 2009 18:37:42 -0400

Hello Congress creates a personalized dashboard that each member of the U.S. Congress can use to track what their constituents' priorities are, as recorded on White House 2.

url: http://hellocongress.org/about

Legistalker

Sun, 10 May 2009 18:08:51 -0400

Legistalker tracks the online activity of U.S. Congress members, including official activity in the Congressional record (via the Capitol Words API), mentions in the news and on Twitter, and YouTube video postings.

NYT Trender

Sun, 10 May 2009 17:55:38 -0400

Compare any two terms by number of mentions in the New York Times in 2008. By Derek Gottfrid.

url: http://tyn-search.appspot.com/

Interactive Map of the U.S. Recession

Sun, 10 May 2009 11:41:25 -0400

Interactive map showing unemployment numbers for each county in the U.S. from January 2007 to February 2009. By Slate Magazine.

url: http://www.slate.com/id/2216238/

LocalPolitics.in

Sun, 10 May 2009 11:00:27 -0400

Enter a U.S. ZIP code or city and state and get detailed federal government information for your location, including the top 10 recipients of government money in your neighborhood, the top 10 presidential campaign donors in your neighborhood, and the latest activities of your congressional representatives. Created for the Sunlight Foundation's Apps for America by Hashrocket.

url: http://localpolitics.in/

Know Thy Congressman

Sun, 10 May 2009 10:43:37 -0400

A browser bookmarklet which displays an abundance of political and biographical information about current members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Highlight the name of a member on a web page and click the bookmarklet for an informative overlay.

url: http://know-thy-congressman.com/

Filibusted

Sat, 09 May 2009 19:43:30 -0400

U.S. Senate rules allow a senator to filibuster—to speak for an indefinite period of time on any subject whatsoever. Historically, this has been used to prevent action on the measure being debated. Filibusted keeps track of filibuster actions in the Senate. By Andrew Dupont.

url: http://filibusted.us/

Party Time

Sat, 09 May 2009 18:37:19 -0400

Party Time is a database documenting the U.S. political partying circuit, tracking parties for members of Congress or congressional candidates, often thrown by lobbyists.

A project of Sunlight Foundation.

url: http://politicalpartytime.org/

MyChances.net

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:49:29 -0400

MyChances lets students compare their SAT scores, GPA, and other relevant metrics to the aggregate statistics from the National Center for Education Statistics for all U.S. colleges to determine their chances of admission.

Submitted by James Pirruccello

url: http://www.mychances.net/

Suburbified

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:30:25 -0500

Suburbified plots 10 years' worth of New York Times "Living In" columns about New York-area suburbs on an Open Street Map.

url: http://www.suburbified.com/

DIYtraffic Bot

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:53:24 -0500

The DIYtraffic Bot is a Java app that can be set up to create a Twitter bot that tweets alerts for any U.S. city from the Yahoo! Traffic API. The bot can also direct message Twitter users traffic updates for specific streets or highways in response to direct message queries.

Read the announcement on DIYcity for more information and check out the DIYtraffic Bots for San Francisco, Chicago and Portland.

url: http://diycity.org/wiki/index.php?title=DIYtraffic_-_Instructions_for_Installation

Stimulus Watch

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:48:37 -0500

Find, view, sort and discuss local projects that are candidates for funding by United States federal grant programs when the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act passes. The projects come from the U.S. Conference of Mayors' Main Street Economic Recovery Report. Download dataset in Excel here.

url: http://stimuluswatch.org/

ReadTheStimulus.org

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:43:43 -0500

The text of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 (House Stimulus Bill), made searchable with comments for each page enabled. Actual dollar appropriations from the bill have been parsed out by volunteers and entered into a Google spreadsheet.

url: http://readthestimulus.org

iLive.at

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:59:06 -0500

Enter a Washington, D.C. address and receive information tailored to that location and organized into categories like Errands, Emergencies, Recently Reported Crimes, People, Transportation and "Did You Know?" Built by Travis Hurant, Tim Koelkebeck and Brian Sobel for Apps for Democracy competition.

url: http://www.ilive.at/

DC Bikes

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:35:23 -0500

Guide to biking in Washington, D.C. where users can find detailed bike routes, monitor bike theft in real time and use Craigslist to shop for equipment. Uses data from the D.C. Data Catalog, the Mapnik toolkit and more. Built by Development Seed for the Apps for Democracy competition.

url: http://www.outsideindc.com/bikes

Richmond Sunlight

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:59:34 -0500

Website that aggregates information about Virginia's General Assembly, the lawmaking body that governs the state of Virginia. Basic metadata about every legislator is available as XML by replacing the trailing slash at the end of the legislator’s page on Richmond Sunlight with .xml. Legislators' voting records are available as a CSV download by appending votes/yyyy/csv/ to the legislator’s page.

url: http://www.richmondsunlight.com/

Capitol Words

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:57:23 -0500

Capitol Words visualizes the most frequently used words in the Congressional Record, offering an at-a-glance view of which issues U.S. lawmakers address on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis. A project of Sunlight Foundation.

Also available as an API.

url: http://www.capitolwords.org/

Represent

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:04:57 -0500

Find your elected representatives and get news about them. Available in New York City only.

See the announcement on Open for more information.

url: http://prototype.nytimes.com/represent/

Campaign Finance Chart App

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:39:48 -0500

PHP app that uses the New York Times Campaign Finance API and the Google Chart API to create a snapshot of campaign finance data for a particular ZIP code.

url: http://developer.nytimes.com/app_fec

NPR Road Trip

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:28:39 -0500

Locate National Public Radio (NPR) radio stations along any driving route in the United States.

url: http://www.nprroadtrip.com/

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

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:11:05 -0400

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

Influence of U.S. Presidents on the Economy

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:35:51 -0400

Interactive heatmap showing yearly estimates for seven economic indicators during the terms of eleven U.S. presidents. By Kevin Quealy and Guilbert Gates for The New York Times.

url: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/10/18/business/20081019-metrics-graphic.html

Financial Sector Market Cap Treemap

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:28:34 -0400

Treemap snapshots of the market capitalization of U.S. financial firms in October 2007 and September 2008. By Kevin Quealy and Dylan Loeb McClain for The New York Times.

url: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/09/15/business/20080916-treemap-graphic.html

2008 Presidential Campaign Donations

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:33:11 -0400

Visualization of the donations made to the 2008 presidential campaigns of Obama and McCain, showing the majority of Obama's donations in the $1-$100 bracket and the majority of McCain's donations in the $500-$1,000 bracket. Created with PHP, XML and Processing. By Pitch Interactive.

url: http://www.pitchinteractive.com/election2008/

Timeline of the Modern Two-Party System in the U.S. Senate

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:37:07 -0400

Timeline of the ebb and flow of party politics in the U.S. Senate since the beginning of the two-party era: the antebellum 35th Congress. By David Sparks.

url: http://www.duke.edu/~dbs9/senatehistory.html

Knowledge as Power

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:51:01 -0400

Simple, personalized website for searching and tracking bills of the Washington State Legislature. Additional tools include legalese translation, bill timelines and tools for emailing your legislators.

Submitted by Sarah Schacht

url: http://beta.knowledgeaspower.org

U.S. Presidential Polls Over Time

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:08:57 -0400

Visualization of state and national polls on the U.S. presidential race. Roll over individual data points for more detail. Data for each chart is available for download in tab-delimited text format. By Lee Byron, Chris Barnes and Henry Corrigan-Gibbs for The New York Times.

url: http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/whos-ahead/polling/index.html

Map of Wal-Mart Growth

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:00:39 -0400

Animation showing the growth of Wal-Mart stores in the United States. Created with Modest Maps. By Nathan Yau of Flowing Data.

The code for this visualization is now available under a BSD license.

url: http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/

San Francisco Walkability Map

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:09:59 -0400

Detailed map of the most walkable sections of San Francisco, CA, using data from Walk Score. Created with Processing. Scraping code available for download. By Lee Byron.

url: http://leebyron.com/how/2008/07/13/mapping-walkability-san-francisco/

Walk Score

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:52:21 -0400

Ranks U.S. addresses by walkability by means of Walk Scores. By Front Seat civic software.

url: http://www.walkscore.com/

TheMiddleClass.org

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:36:09 -0400

Searchable and browsable analysis of U.S. legislation based on potential impact on the middle class. Uses the Legislature module for Drupal by Neil Drumm. By the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI).

url: http://themiddleclass.org/

Industry Browser

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:01:06 -0400

Browse industries according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and view corresponding Freebase company data as filtered through Google Maps, New York Times Topics, related Wikipedia entries, Securities and Exchange Commission data and political campaign contribution data. By Toby Segaran.

url: http://kiwitobes.com/industry_mashup/

Presidential Campaign Spending and Its Beneficiaries

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:29:14 -0400

Interactive graphic showing the amount of money spent by 2008 presidential campaigns by category and company. By Lee Byron, Hannah Fairfield and Griff Palmer for The New York Times.

url: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/07/03/business/20080706_METRICS_GRAPHIC.html

DataPlace 2.0 (Beta)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:17:55 -0400

DataPlace is a free online data system that assembles a variety of housing and demographic data at geographic scales ranging from the neighborhood to the nation. DataPlace is unique in its emphasis on data comparability and quality, and for its licensing options available to organizations that would like to create their own data sites. By Knowledge Plex, Inc. More information about its data sources is available here.

url: http://beta.dataplace.org/

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/

2008 Campaign Finance Map

Tue, 20 May 2008 21:11:34 -0400

Interactive map showing U.S. presidential campaign contributions by location of origin and date made. Includes an animation option to view contribution activity over time. By Shan Carter, Aron Pilhofer and Cameron Brown for The New York Times.

url: http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/finances/map/index.html

SparkIP

Tue, 20 May 2008 12:06:06 -0400

U.S. patent search tool with clustering and visualization.

url: http://www.sparkip.com/

SpotCrime.com

Tue, 13 May 2008 21:38:37 -0400

Interactive maps of urban crime in the U.S. Registered users can receive crime alerts via email or SMS.

url: http://spotcrime.com/

D.C. Data Pipes

Mon, 12 May 2008 20:13:07 -0400

Yahoo Pipes created using public space permit, crime incident, building permit, service request, and juvenile arrests and charges data from Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse. Each pipe allows users to filter data and return results—in some cases, results are also mapped. By Frank Winstead.

url: http://pipes.yahoo.com/frank_winstead

JDLand

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:40:41 -0400

Website chronicling the redevelopment of the "Near Southeast" neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Uses data from Washington, D.C. Citywide Data Warehouse to report recent crime incidents, building permits, public space permits, service requests and real property sales.

url: http://www.jdland.com

CrimeReports.com

Mon, 12 May 2008 19:23:46 -0400

Maps crime data from cities and law enforcement agencies around the U.S. By Public Engines, Inc., a private company that provides web-based products to help government agencies share information directly with local communities.

url: http://www.crimereports.com

An Average Consumer's Spending

Mon, 05 May 2008 08:11:47 -0400

Interactive Voronoi treemap of the Consumer Price Index, showing how much the average American spends on 84,000 products in 200 categories. By Matthew Bloch, Shan Carter and Amanda Cox for The New York Times.

url: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/03/business/20080403_SPENDING_GRAPHIC.html

Unfluence

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:40:24 -0400

Interactive network maps of U.S. state-level political contribution data.

url: http://unfluence.primate.net/index.html

Visualizing Earmarks

Sun, 04 May 2008 22:10:19 -0400

Visualizations of 2005 U.S. Office of Management and Budget earmark data.

See also Earmark Watch.

url: http://sunlightlabs.com/visualizingearmarks/

Civic Footprint

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:50:38 -0400

A tool for exploring the political geography of Cook County, Illinois. By the Center for Neighborhood Technology.

url: http://www.civicfootprint.org/

Who Is My Representative?

Sun, 04 May 2008 21:24:37 -0400

Simple tool for looking up representation in U.S. Congress.

url: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/

Federal Contracts by State

Sun, 04 May 2008 20:54:41 -0400

U.S. federal contract data visually presented using the Google Charts API. By Jim Hamilton.

url: http://www.tetonpost.com/sc/

Earmark Watch

Fri, 02 May 2008 13:07:10 -0400

Public space for the investigation of earmarks—spending measures inserted by members of U.S. Congress into bills that direct taxpayer dollars to their pet projects. Provides a research framework and space for comments and notes.

url: http://earmarkwatch.org/

Watchdog.net

Thu, 01 May 2008 08:12:04 -0400

Hub for U.S. political data, action and causes. Every important page is also available as an API, accessible in N3, XML or JSON.

url: http://watchdog.net/

All Streets

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:34:32 -0400

Image of the 26 million individual road segments of the U.S. No other features added. By Ben Fry.

url: http://benfry.com/allstreets/index.html

Flight Patterns

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 18:22:13 -0400

Animated visualizations of U.S. air traffic data.

url: http://users.design.ucla.edu/%7Eakoblin/work/faa/index.html

Network Diagrams of U.S. Senator Roll Call Voting Proximity

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:30:13 -0400

"Using Senators' Roll Call votes from the first session of the 110th Congress, it is possible to identify ideological similarities and differences between each Senator. These network diagrams exhibit these similarities and distances." By David Sparks.

url: http://arbitrarian.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/dimesworth-of-difference/

President Bush State of the Union Speech Sentence Diagrams

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:25:02 -0400

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/

Shared Board Members of America's Big Companies

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:06:44 -0400

Graphical network showing companies that share board members and CEOs. Created using data extracted from SEC filings and entered into Freebase.

url: http://blog.freebase.com/2008/04/09/visualizing-corporate-america/

Follow the Oil Money

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:00:15 -0400

Interactive tool for tracking the flow of oil money in U.S. politics.

url: http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/

Oakland Crimespotting

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:52:38 -0400

Interactive map of crimes in Oakland, California.

url: http://oakland.crimespotting.org/

ProxyDemocracy

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:57:46 -0400

Offers tools to help investors in stocks and mutual funds use their voting power to hold corporations accountable.

url: http://proxydemocracy.org/

zipdecode

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:24:58 -0400

Animated explorer of U.S. ZIP code districts. By Ben Fry.

url: http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/

EveryBlock

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:54:59 -0400

Comprehensive geographic news filter, currently available for Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, DC, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Francisco.

url: http://www.everyblock.com/

PopUp Politicians for Web Pages

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:57:06 -0400

Javascript-based widget that adds mini-profiles of Members of Congress to web page that appear when you mouseover politicians' names.

url: http://sunlightlabs.com/popuppoliticians/

SEC Financial Explorer

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:55:20 -0400

Tool for exploring interactive data submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by 36 companies using XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language). The companies are part of a 1-year test group.

url: http://209.234.225.154/viewer/home/

Change Congress

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:48:16 -0400

Offers tools for citizens and candidates to pledge their support for basic changes to reduce the distorting influence of money in American government.

url: http://change-congress.org/

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/

StateMaster

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:44:47 -0400

Graphically compare U.S. states in a thousand different ways.

url: http://www.statemaster.com/index.php

GovTrack.us

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:30:43 -0400

Track bills before Congress and other U.S. government data. By Joshua Tauberer.

url: http://www.govtrack.us/

MAPLight.org

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:30:04 -0400

Illuminates the connection between money and politics in America, specifically the U.S. Congress and the State of California. Uses the Legislature module for Drupal by Neil Drumm. They have an API as well.

url: http://maplight.org/about

OpenCongress

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:29:22 -0400

Track U.S. bills, committees, issues affected by bills and committees, and the voting histories and activities of U.S. senators and representatives.

url: http://www.opencongress.org/

They Rule

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 23:23:09 -0400

They Rule allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004.

url: http://theyrule.net/