about 9 years ago
Data sources galore!
Interesting visualization tools
- https://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/
- Carto.com - free for educational use - this looks very promising for non-coders especially
Interesting libraries
- Requests: HTTP for Humans - Python 2 Library for working with APIs
- Httplib2 - Python 3 Library for working with APIs
Interesting APIs
- World Bank APIs: climate data, country, income level, etc.
- Open Data Network
- Congress
- Food and Drug Administration
Browse interesting data sets
- World Bank (Agriculture, Aid Effectiveness, Climate Change, Economy/Growth, Education, Energy/MIning, Environment, External Debt, Financial Sector, Gender, Health, Infrastructure, Poverty, Private Sector, Public Sector, Science/Technology, Social Development, Social Protection/Labor, Trade, Urban Development)
- Google BigQuery Public Datasets (GDELT book corpus, GitHub data, Hacker News, IRS 990, Major League Baseball, Medicare, NOAA GHCN/GSOD Weather, NYC 311 Service Requests, NYC Citi Bike Trips, NYC Tree Census, NYPD Motor Vehicle Collisions, Open Images, Stack Overflow, USA Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA Disease Data, USA Names Data)
- US data.gov public datasets
- ARCGIS OpenData 60,000 datasets from 3,855 organizations worldwide
- Open Data Network
- Example: Massachusetts data
- Knoema Atlas World and regional statistics, national data, maps, rankings
- http://guides.nyu.edu/hackathondata
- https://public.tableau.com/en-us/s/resources
Places to find interesting data sets
- http://www.engagedata.eu/
- Open Data Initiative
- https://okfn.org/projects/ - Open Data International
- https://data.world/
- http://opendataday.org/#resources
Hackathon Projects
- Miriam and Marc's StreetSmart -https://temboo.com/blog/temboos-first-hackathon
- Take out the Trash - https://hubhacks2.devpost.com/submissions/35312-take-out-the-trash
- Energy in America visualization
- LA Crime Map visualization - https://devpost.com/software/la-crime-map-visualization
- TrailHub - https://devpost.com/software/trailhub
[VIJAY]
Python APIs and Tutorials
https://www.dataquest.io/blog/python-api-tutorial/
Web Scraping
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Python Web Dev
Data Visualization
http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/
Python Data Analysis
https://www.continuum.io/anaconda-overview
Scientific Computing
APIs
https://developers.facebook.com/