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!
Alright, just to be a twit, do you have permission to use that chimp photo? We just had to ask someone to take one of our pictures down because they used it without permission and we had already had copyright issues with it.
Good q'n beckto--The site has been scrupulously designed to give credit and encourage sharing, otherwise it won't work. All of the simian photos are from public domain or creative commons- licensed sources, and each page has a photo credit with rights statement and link to the original for that monkey pic
If there's a missing one pls let me know!
Ps pablo -- I also have Infinitemonkeys.info if that's easier for you :)
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I was trying to think of the site name a few weeks ago and the only thing that came into my head was datamonkey
posted by pablo at 08:06AM CST on March 07