Find interesting and specific data

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Availability of well structured and commented data is increasing dramatically. 2010 saw the appearance of many great data repositories, most of them being part of transparency policies led by governments. We are being witnesses to a true data revolution.

The coming years we will doubtlessly see the appearance, growing and enhancement of data repositories with relevant information about many different subjects, and certainly not only country-specific information.

There are many factors that are contributing to this change, and there's a positive feedback relation among them.

  • people producing information
  • people needing to share information
  • people and institutions needing information
  • people and institutions needing tools to understand and add value and knowledge to information
  • people getting aware about their rights to access public information and its relevance
  • people learning new tools to understand, process, visualize and publish information
  • institutions sharing and publishing information (because of necessity, strategy or social pressure)


This is a list of great data repositories:


http://delicious.com/moebio/!+%5BdataRepository%5D



A good place to find data to play with in Impure is the Guardian data blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog

Data blog guardian.png



At Bestiario we are creating a modest, but diverse and well organized collection of data resources: http://delicious.com/datarepository You will find many of them used in the Impure examples

Data repository.png

This code snippet allows you to to quickly access the files at Bestiario's data repository.

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