Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Recently, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, Chris Whong received and made public a complete dump of historical trip and fare logs from NYC taxis. It’s pretty incredible: there are over 20GB of uncompressed data comprising more t...

How a Lone Hacker Shredded the Myth of Crowdsourcing

Of course I said yes and said my rate would be £75 for the usage (I wasn’t sure on what to charge, so I checked with some professional photographers what the rate was. They all said between £75 and £90, so I went in at the lower end of...

We're a semantic technology company that instantly delivers deep insights from the world's data. Since 2009, we've amassed the world's deepest and most interconnected knowledge graph, encompassing 500 collections, 1 billion entities, 250 bi...

Curious about the food Americans eat? Look no further.
Instacart is excited to announce our first public datase ...

Open Images is an open media platform that offers online... audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse... audiovisual collections can be downloaded and remixed in... Users of Open Images also have the opportunity to add th...
Access to t

Our World in Data (OWID) is an online publication that s... conditions are changing. The aim is to give a global ove...
Our World in Data communicates this empirical knowledge ...
through data visualizations – charts and maps.
by presenting the acade

Swivel's mission is to make data useful so people share ... great decisions and improve lives.
In an era of spin, opinion, and apathy about statistics, ...
We believe data is most valuable when it's out in the op ...

CKAN is a tool for managing and publishing collections o... by national and local governments, research institutions... organisations which collect a lot of data. With its powe... faceting, users can browse and find the data they need, ... using maps,

CloudMade enables you to build dramatically different Lo... Applications and Services.
CloudMade provides application developers with a range o ...

Launched in May 2010, DataMarket.com is a data portal th... to statistics and structured data from various public an... organizations.
This enables users to find, compare, visualize and downl ...
Access to public sector and other open and free data is

Full Fact is an independent fact-checking organisation. ... to see the facts and context behind the claims made by t... British political debate and press those who make mislea...
We have already successfully pressed for inaccurate clai ...
Since its c

Syncing data on the web has always been a pain. Either y... or you buckled down and built it yourself with an API. I... technical you had few places to turn for help.
That's why we built Zapier.
Zapier is for busy people who know their time is better .

DataSift is the real time social media filtering engine ... which builds upon the success of TweetMeme, the consumer... MediaSift Ltd.
DataSift provides very granular and modular ‘sifting†...
The world is moving to streams, and consumers will consu

The Public Domain Review aspires to become a bounteous g... whopping plenitude that is the public domain. We aim to ... explore this rich terrain by surfacing unusual and obscu...
As well as providing a home for a diverse range of inter ...
We also hop

This dataset contains information for virtually all UK r... for the lines (routes) that the stations lie on. Links a... the stations and routes, and between adjacent stations. ... included to Wikipedia, dbpedia.org, the National Rail En... and geoname

Courted, used and discarded in less than a year. That’... Transport for London’s attitude towards independent ap... the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme.

Legacy API
Get Product Information
GET https://api.outpan.com/v2/products/[GTIN]?apikey=[YO ...

Was 2010 the year of the API? Some have claimed this eac... years, with the next always eclipsing the previous. Ther... APIs added to our API directory in 2010, two times the n... 2009. Greater trends on the web are being played out, as... the most po

LibraryThing APIs
thingISBN takes an ISBN and returns a list of ISBNs fro ...
thingTitle takes a title and returns a list ISBNs from ...
thingLang takes an ISBN and returns the language of the ...

Underneath the surface of the BBC World Cup web site the... going on in the technology and workflow being used to ma... our content. To some extent we have been doing this in s... figure out a lot of challenges, but as we approach the W... we'd like t

The microformats community has revisited it’s standard... “microformats version 2”. At first, I thought why! I...
The authoring patterns have been simplified even mor ...
microformats 2 addresses one of the biggest problems ...
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A smart city is an open city. It runs on data, so public... demonstrate a presumption of openness, making data freel... in an accessible format. Data connectivity needs to be s... a privilege and as ubiquitous as water from the tap.

The First Case in History
The first historic mention of Copyright, which set the u ...
Columcille had taken to visiting monasteries, borrowing ...