Helping journalists understand, browse and toy with API data.
Huge amounts of data are available online via APIs, but often in forms that aren't viewable by non-technical folks. This tool lets you play with examples from a handful of popular APIs. | source : apiplayground.org
Poligraft is a new tool released by the Sunlight Foundation that tries to add political context to news stories. It scans news articles for the names of donors, corporations, lobbyists and politicians and shows how they are connected by contributions. | source : www.poynter.org
DataSift gives developers the ability to leverage cloud computing to build very precise streams of data from the millions and millions of tweets sent everyday. | source : datasift.net
Whilst with traditional E-Mail applications a sender has lost all control over a message the moment it is sent, with Opolis the sender is empowered to protect, control and monitor all sent messages. As Opolis treats all messages as confidential, the sender decides what the recipient is allowed to do with it such as whether the recipient can copy, forward or print it. A sent message can never be amended or manipulated. And, the sender can constantly monitor the status of a message and - if permitted - how the recipient has further processed the message. | source : www.opolis.eu
This is an academic research project looking at the way MPs and peers vote. It will be (or at least aims to be) useful for journalists, politicians, lobbyists, and members of the public interested in parliamentary behaviour.
We're interested in all votes, whipped and unwhipped and all parties. Our main interest - as the majority party in the Commons - is on Labour, but we're also interested in looking at the Conservatives and Lib Dems, as well as the minor parties.
We publish regular briefing papers analysing key events - such as the Foundation Hospitals rebellion or the revolts over top-up fees - as well as more detailed research papers. Over the last year our research has featured in most UK newspapers (including the Telegraph, Guardian, Independent and Times) as well as being used widely on TV and Radio (including Newsnight, The World Tonight, BBC News 24 and so on). | source : www.revolts.co.uk
TimeFlow Analytical Timeline is a visualization tool for temporal data. The current release is “alpha” software—a very early version that may have bugs and glitches.
The tool helps you analyze temporal data with five different displays:
Timeline View: plots events over time on a scrollable, horizontal timeline
Calendar View: plots events by day, month, and year in calendar format
Bar Chart View: a flexible, aggregate view of data points. It allows users to aggregate data by any header in the data set.
Table View: a straightforward table view of all data points
List View: a simple list of events shown on the timeline, complete with description and metadata about each data point | source : wiki.github.com
This is where Encoding.com comes in. Encoding.com is a service that will convert and serve your video into any formats you wish. That means you can take video you shoot and edit and serve it to users who visit your site on an iPhone, BlackBerry, desktop computer or even a connected television device like the upcoming Google TV. | source : www.encoding.com
Catdoc and xls2csv is about the most usefull thing in the world when you have a huge pile of spreadsheet to feed into some sort of processing system. | source : search.cpan.org