You can download data on 677,081 cars traded in the Cash for Clunkers program from Cars.gov. The AP has already analyzed it and found that one in seven of the new vehicles purchased in exchange get...
Until this week, you could find the Social Security numbers of tens of thousands of current and former soldiers, sailors and airmen on the Web site of the Library of Congress. This included So...
If you’re interested in the kinds of things that interest me on this blog, you can follow me on Twitter, Delicious and Google Reader. I serve an unsteady stream of links that often never make ...
…. from OnlineCourses.org. Actually, some are just so-so (and at least one, Evernote, isn’t open source), but at least they’re free.
Data.gov has come out of the gate lame. This is the Obama administration's new site for sharing executive branch data in formats friendly to programmers and stat junkies. It's got the Sunlight F...
Matthew Stoff and David Durrett of The Daily Sentinel, a newspaper in East Texas, explain how to use Twitter to publish breaking news from the field to any Web site. "If you can send an e-mail, ...
UCLA law professor Lynn M. LoPucki's free Bankruptcy Research Database "provides data for much, if not most, empirical work" on the subject of large company bankruptcies, according to his faculty b...
You can now type "unemployment rate Kentucky" or "population indiana" in the Google search box and get an interactive chart that allows you to do comparisons with other states. Says Google: ...
Joel Kramer is a former Minneapolis Star Tribune editor and publisher who is the founder of MinnPost.com, a Web news startup that promises “a thoughtful approach to news.” His recounting of less...
BankTracker, from the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, has received more than 700,000 pageviews since its unveiling this week. BankTracker uses FDIC data to calculate the...
… from Online Degree World (“Education for Everyone”): There was a time when writers and artists were at the mercy of a few decision-makers who said what was published and what was cast asi...
… is a new project by Criminal Justice Journalists and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. It promises to be “the nation’s only comprehensive guide to all facets of the criminal justice sy...
You have until March 9 to tell Show Us the Data which federal government documents you hunger for the most: Is the federal government putting the information you need online? Are there categ...
The Obama administration promises that the spending that will flood from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act “will be carried out with full transparency and accountability.” They say Reco...
The Troubled Asset Relief Program database from SubsidyScope shows ďż˝??which companies received funds, how much they received, and when they received it.ďż˝?? You can download the data, and thereďż˝?...
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