Category Archives: Data and society

Making public data APIs is a business now

Jon Udell blogs about a company that builds interfaces to public-sector data. Udell points out, quite rightly, that “Give us the data” is an easy slogan to chant. And there’s no doubt that much good will come from poking through … Continue reading

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New York City government seeks data miners

Sewell Chan and Patrick McGeehan report today in the New York Times that the New York City government is out to make its piles of public data actually usable: In what is planned to become an annual competition known as … Continue reading

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