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Theinfo.org - for people with large data sets
- imsteve 19y agoA very useful idea. Many databases can be such a pain to find, I'm sure most people don't know they exist. Plus, I've got a ton of python for doing complex manipulations of sql data and schemas and scraping the web that I've been meaning to share. Will add some to this site.
- kleevr 19y agoI hope their data visualization section matures.
- eVizitei 19y agoHow cool is that? A cross-organization abstraction for the greater good.
- nonrecursive 19y agoreminds me of swivel.com, a cool startup that allows you to "upload & explore" data. I talked to someone there and they mentioned comparing weather data to stock prices as an example.
- ALee 19y agoCool. When we created Fantasy Congress we scraped the government in Java and then only afterwards did we find out that a friend of ours had scraped it in Perl years before and the Washington Post did it a year ago. It would have saved us a lot of heartburn.
- keizo 19y agohaha, is Arjun with you guys? tell him I said hi.
- btw0 19y agoI don't like the font Aaron Swartz always use.
- gmlk 19y agoI guess he's doing alright if you only have to complain about the font :)
- andreyf 19y agoHere's a data set that needs scraping, if anyone has the time to spare: speeches and PR communications, esp. those from government officials. Visualizations of what talking points or ideas are spreading through what organizations (political parties, campaigns) and in what countries would be really interesting. Data mining to see which phrases or ideas "stick" in political blogs or on social websites would be neat, also.