Jacob Kaplan-Moss: data

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MnDNR Data Deli

GIS data from the MN DNR.

Cartographer.js – thematic mapping for Google Maps

Heat maps, point clustering, etc. Built on top of Raphael.

(charts, data, drawing, geolocation, google, googlemaps, infographics, javascript, jquery, mapping, maps, raphaël, svg, visualization)

Timetric: making sense of statistics

A platform for storing, updating, and embedding time series analysis data. Complete with a (very good) API, OpenID support, nice looking graphs, etc. Really quite cool.

(data, graph, statistics, timeseries, visualization, webservices)

How Nate Silver Went From Forecasting Baseball Games to Forecasting Elections — New York Magazine

FiveThirtyEight has firmly wedged its way into the small list of sites I read obsessively.

(algorithms, baseball, data, election, election2008, fivethirtyeight, politics, sports, statistics)

ThinkGeek :: Car Chip Pro Engine Performance Monitor

Want.

(car, data, logging)

National TIGER/Line Shapefiles

TIGER/Line data in SHP format. Importing this into a GeoDjango site is easy-peasy.

(data, geo, geowanking, gis, map, maps, shapefile, shp, tiger)

Girl Turk: Mechanical Turk Meets Girl Talk's “Feed the Animals” - Waxy.org

This is why I love the Internet.

(data, girltalk, mechanicalturk, music, statistics)

Geeking with Greg: Clever method of near duplicate detection

A slick algorithm to “fingerprint” text based on chains for words following stop words.

(algorithm, data, detection, duplicate, similarity, via:jkocherhans)

django-tables: A QuerySet renderer

Really neat base class for doing presentation of tabular data in Django. Very well-done.

(data, django, tables)

Star Wars Kid: The Data Dump - Waxy.org

“Be warned, this is more detail than you'll ever want about the origins of the Star Wars Kid meme and how it spread. You don't care about this level of detail.”

(data, starwarskid, stories, waxy)

Official Google Docs Blog: Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information

New in Google Spreadsheets: publish a web form which submits data into your spreadsheet. This is completely brilliant. I can see this being incredibly useful. Yet another reason never to use Excel again.

(data, database, forms, google, spreadsheet, tools)

Google Spreadsheet: Functions for external data

“=importXML(“www.google.com”, “//a/@href”)” — wow.

(data, google, mashups, spreadsheets, xml, xpath)

FAA - Airport Data (5010) & Contact Information

Download airport data in XSL format.

(aiports, airlines, aviation, data, faa, gps)

Travel: Find The Real Reason For Delays With Airline Cargo Sites

A useful tool for finding out what's *really* going on when that flight's delayed.

(airline, data, flight, reference)

IPSR - Kansas Data

KU's Institude for Policy and Social Research has a pretty good interface to a bunch of KS economic and social data going as far back as the 1890s.

(data, kansas)

Kansas State Campaign Finance

KS campaign finance disclosure data.

(data, for:mcroydon, kansas)

NBI ASCII Files - Bridge - FHWA

National Bridge Inventory data from the FHA. 2000-2006 data; incredibly clean.

(bridges, data, for:holovaty, for:mcroydon, publicdata)

UNdemocracy - Front page

13 years of UN meeting minutes, searchable and databased.

(data, government, hackday, publicdata)

FEC: Download Detailed Files by Election Cycle

Raw FEC disclosure data, from the horse's mouth.

(data, election, fec, publicdata)

Many Eyes

Swivel gets some (awesome looking) competition.

(data, for:mcroydon, ibm, visualization)

Statistical Data Mining Tutorials

Um, wow.

(algorithms, data, datamining, programming, reference, research, science, tutorial)

Kansas Department of Health and Environment

(data, food, health, ideas, kansas, mashup, safety)

Nutrient Data Products and Services

The USDA's nutrition database package, available for download in various formats.

(data, food, publicdata)

CJR: Who Owns What

(data, media, news, ownership)

Domaki Labs

Nathan brings the flash-fu

(data, django, flash, visualization)

Retrosheet

Comprehensive baseball stats through 1984, free for nearly any use.

(baseball, data, history, reference, sports, stats)

NOAA - National Weather Service - Experimental XML data feeds - Current Conditions

I can never find this when I want it.

(data, reference, weather, xml)

SIMILE | Timeline

“…like Google Maps for time-based information.” Holy crap this is cool.

(api, c, calendar, data, javascript, opensource, visualization, xml)

Download Database Version 5

“Complete batting and pitching statistics from 1871-2005. Plus fielding statistics, standings, team stats, managerial records, post-season data, and more.”

(baseball, data, database, stats)