As announced on their excellent Open blog, the Times rolled out a neat tool yesterday:
The New York Times Visualization Lab… allows readers to create compelling interactive charts, graphs, maps and other types of graphical presentations from data made available by Times editors. NYTimes.com readers can comment on the visualizations, share them with others in the [...]
My comrade in arms Ryan Mark sez:
The Sun-Times published the names, salaries and positions of 145,000 Illinois, Cook County, and Chicago employees on their website this weekend. The names and salaries are online in the form of a simple searchable database.
But the data is buried. There’s no way to get to a spreadsheet of [...]
Documents!
Remember documents? Way back, before broadband, before user-generated content, before video chat, we used computers to… well… play solitaire. But between games, we wrote documents. It was so, um… productive!
Well, documents are sexy again. Scribd is hot. It’s “YouTube for documents.” It’s got an API. Boing Boing likes [...]
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