RT @OReillyMedia: Free Download: DJ Patil (@dpatil) explains the world's best new profession - #data scientist /gg

Data Shirts: shirts for data scientists by data scientists, proceeds go to Data without Borders.

Good piece by @digiphile: Opening government, the Chicago way

Type in the name of a COMPANY, your LAWMAKER or a prominent INDIVIDUAL, and see how they're influencing the political system.

RT @codeforamerica OpenDataPhilly.org Launches in Philadelphia by @atogle #opengov #data

RT @al3x: This post from @timoreilly is almost two and a half years old, but if anything, it's even more relevant today: ...

Thrilled to announce OSCON Data, co-located with OSCON. Deeply practical data mgmt content. CFP open thru 3/14. #data

"Wrangler is an interactive tool for data cleaning and transformation.
Spend less time formatting and more time analyzing your data."

Another must read, and more importantly must do list from @jonathanstray #cujourn11

The #data for last 2years work of the Guardian's @datastore available good datasets here for #strataconf

"…The people who are likely to produce breakthroughs--the really smart smarty-pants in the math departments of the world’s universities--don’t have access to large bodies of real-world data. And without real-world data, they can come up with as many hypotheses and new types of math as they like, but they’ll never really know if it actually works in the real world. It’s like trying to learn how to serve without tennis balls. You can swing as much as you like, but until you actually hit a real-live ball, you can never be sure if your swing would actually place a ball in the serve box.

For their part, the people who have real-world data--the Amazons and eBays of the world--can’t share it with the researchers for reasons of customer privacy. “Even if we anonymize it, we’re handcuffed because we can’t give out data that can be reasonably be used to reconstruct who someone really is,” the Chief Scientist, Darren Vengroff, tells Fast Company.

Vengroff, however, has come up with a novel solution: He’s created a “black box” of sorts with real-world data that researchers can use to run experiments on. Researchers won’t be able to look at the data, but they will be able to dump their algorithms in and have the box spit out results, which the researchers can then use to refine their hypotheses.…"

Very cool: ScraperWiki via @maxogden
"ScraperWiki is a platform for writing and scheduling screen scrapers, and for storing the data they generate. There's lots of useful data locked away on the internet and we want to open it up!"

Really important tech post by @mikeloukides: Finishing the revolution that started with Ajax #w2s #data

RT @mikeloukides Data Week: a new O'Reilly Radar feature. Stuff you need to know if you work with #data.

Glad to see that @marcidale has started going public about popvox. What they are working on is important.

Brilliant, must-read post by @judell: The laws of information chemistry #data

The Biocep R Project Brings Open Science to the Cloud - "How will we analyze all this data?" #data #r #cloudcomputing

The Guardian's Open Platform is now open for business #openplatform

RT @OReillyMedia #Ebook Deal of the Day: Beautiful Data - Only $9.99 use code DDBDA

Data portability is the ability for people to reuse their data across interoperable applications. The DataPortability Project works to advance this vision by identifying, contextualizing and promoting efforts in the space.

@kgreenbaum In that case, have you looked at http://j.mp/geocommons ?