Links posted on March 07, 2008
Infochimps.org - free redistributable datasets.
Exploring rich data is fun, but inding it, formatting it, tagging it with metadata is drudge work barely fit for a trained chimp. We need a site where you can find a century of hourly weather, every major league baseball game, decades of stock prices, or every US patent filing -- and where you can share back data you gather or enrich.
So here's infochimps.org, a community to assemble and interconnect a giant free almanac with tables on everything you can put in a table. Built by data nerds, used by data nerds, come find the information you need.
(This is the site I've been building the last few months. If the servers fling poo or you otherwise see something horribly broken please email me or post.) yay!