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Where can I find public data available for download?

By juliesteele : 02 October 2009 - 09:32 AM
In Toby Segaran's work on Freebase, he's looked at hundreds of data sets that were interesting on their own, but even more interesting as augmentation and context for other data sets. These co...
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Summarizing Recovery.gov Grant Data with a CouchDB View

By tmo9d : 01 October 2009 - 06:56 AM
The Grant XML file from Recovery.gov contains information about approximately 61,000 federal grants that comprise the Recovery Act of 2009. If you want to do this yourself on your own instance of ...
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Where to find US government data

By LaurelRuma : 30 September 2009 - 09:19 AM
You can access all types of US government data from data.gov. The data is available in various raw formats, including .csv, .xml, .kml, and .shp. This information is available here: http://www.data.go...
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Load Recovery.gov Grant Data into a CouchDB Database

By tmo9d : 30 September 2009 - 08:54 AM
The Grant XML file from Recovery.gov contains information about approximately 61,000 federal grants that comprise the Recovery Act of 2009. While you could go through the trouble of loading this dat...
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How to Run Simple Frequency Analysis on the Recovery.gov Data

By tmo9d : 29 September 2009 - 09:03 AM
While you've read all about the unprecedented transparency of the recent stimulus act, you want to run some simple frequency reports on the raw data to see which states and which cities are gettin...
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Parse the Recovery.gov Grant Data and Create a Lucene Index

By tmo9d : 29 September 2009 - 08:45 AM
Maybe you are interested in running some frequency analysis, or creating a full-text search database for the Recovery.gov data? If so, you'll need to download the raw XML database from the Recov...
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How to Download Raw Data from Recovery.gov

By tmo9d : 29 September 2009 - 06:37 AM
recovery.gov is a site that was created to help track all of the money in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a collection of grants, loans, targeted spending, and tax cuts valued at &...
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