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by skram 10y ago
Nice work! I hear about these challenges in collaborating on research all the time. Developing a platform like this is a significant investment for most teams, and for many, the development and maintenance is a distraction from their missio
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by skram 10y ago
I work here and it's awesome. Check out the careers page, were hiring across the board!
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by skram 10y ago
Cool. Seems similar to https://bountify.co/
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by skram 10y ago
Some data stores (Mongo, CouchDB) do support in-place updating of JSON objects
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by skram 10y ago
I'd love to know as well. There's a lot of great data on doctors in the US at data.cms.gov and data.medicare.gov. Socrata, the company I work for, builds and hosts the APIs so let me know if I can help in any way!
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by skram 10y ago
Probably because of the way government contracting works with (value added) resellers. One such is "Carahsoft" (see http://openbeta-contracts-explorer.usaspending.gov/#!/year/A... ). If you dig into the d
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by skram 10y ago
A lot of this data can also be browsed by mere mortals at http://openbeta-contracts-explorer.usaspending.gov/ . More information is available at https://openbeta.usaspending.gov/ too.
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by skram 10y ago
Pretty cool. Haven't gotten it fully working yet (posted an issue on github) but thanks for sharing!
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by skram 10y ago
Consider checking out US Dept of Commerce's Census of Governments - it has a lot of information. There's also a big trend of state/local governments opening their budgets and expenditures to the public in new and engaging way
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by skram 10y ago
What type of civic technology/innovation? Typically, the ecosystem around open data is much more forthcoming and, well, open. Consider checking out http://slack.opendatacommunity.io/
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The White House's 2017 Budget Visualization (with Data Download and API)(budget2017.whitehouse.gov)
4 points by skram 11y ago|0 comments
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by skram 11y ago
Nice work. What's the use case?
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Gallup Poll: Americans' Biggest Problem in 2015? Government(govexec.com)
3 points by skram 11y ago|1 comments
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by skram 11y ago
I noticed that and a broken link too.. sent a PR on Github
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by skram 11y ago
A web tool that took a CSV or JSON endpoint and ran a few R/Python/whatever scripts to see what the mean/mode/min/max of each column was, if there were any strong linear (or other types) of correlations, etc. A lot
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by skram 11y ago
Also check out https://data.nasa.gov/data?category=&search=&type=datasets (linked to from open.nasa.gov) which all have consistent APIs -- so you can write code once and re-use it as opposed to having to write a new
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by skram 11y ago
As mentioned before, this sounds like some BI tools. The collaboration feature set, specifically, is part of jackdb.com it appears.
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by skram 11y ago
Are you willing to use a third party platform to host the data on? Check out CartoDB.com Mark S / @Skram
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by skram 11y ago
via Twitter for a challenge.gov challenge. We ended up winning and turning the software into a company and got a government contract.
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by skram 11y ago
open.whitehouse.gov is HTTPS :)
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by skram 11y ago
It is in private beta
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by skram 12y ago
rtrivedi - do you have an email I can reach you on? I work for the company that helps Medicare.gov (and a lot of other govt agencies) publish their data online in machine readable formats and I'd love to get feedback from you and under
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by skram 12y ago
This is great especially considering the REST API meaning this can be adapted to other environments other than mobile...
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by skram 12y ago
You might want to check out https://tempo-db.com/about/
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by skram 12y ago
Check out http://opendata.stackexchange.com/ - a very similar question has been asked there.
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by skram 12y ago
There are many. Here's a starter list: - http://programmableweb.com/ - http://apis.io/ - http://mashape.com/ - http://api-portal.anypoint.mulesoft.com/apis/travel
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by skram 12y ago
This seems like a good idea but wont it be able to find someone out by looking on linked in for a unique skill set? I've seen a number of job sites make it so you can exclude folks from certain companies from seeing your profile...
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by skram 12y ago
Unfortunately, the ability to truly replicate the Uber apps is unavailable in the completely open API in that you cannot order rides.
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by skram 12y ago
3scale is one of many API management providers. I have no personal experience with 3scale but some other alternatives off the top of my head to check out include apigee, mashape, and mashery.
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by skram 12y ago
You will need somewhere to deploy the API and likely will want some way to manage users of the API. For deployment, almost any web host that supports your tech stack should do. See apievangelist.com for resources on everything API related.

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