Datomic moves powerful data manipulation capabilities, and the data itself, into applications, coupling them with a sound and flexible data model. This provides the basis for the next generation of elastic, intelligent applications, free from the bounds of traditional databases.

Spark is an open source cluster computing system that aims to make data analytics fast — both fast to run and fast to write.

Waffles seeks to be the world's most comprehensive collection of command-line tools for machine learning and data mining. Our native tools have minimal dependencies (no interpreter, VM, or runtime environment is necessary), and build cross-platform.

The FRED® API is a web service that allows developers to write programs and build applications that retrieve economic data from the FRED® and ALFRED® websites hosted by the Economic Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document. As a trivial example, you can use D3 to generate a basic HTML table from an array of numbers. Or, use the same data to create an interactive SVG bar chart with smooth transitions and interaction.

CKAN is the Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network, a registry of open knowledge packages and projects (and a few closed ones).

CKAN makes it easy to find, share and reuse open content and data, especially in ways that are machine automatable.

Pattern is a web mining module for the Python programming language.
It bundles tools for data retrieval (Google + Twitter + Wikipedia API, web spider, HTML DOM parser), text analysis (rule-based shallow parser, WordNet interface, syntactical + semantical n-gram search algorithm, tf-idf + cosine similarity + LSA metrics) and data visualization (graph networks).

Tablib is an MIT Lisenced format-agnostic tabular dataset library, written in Python. It allows you to import, export, and manipulate tabular data sets. Advanced features include, segregation, dynamic columns, tags & filtering, and seamless format import & export.

The Open Energy Information initiative (OpenEI) is a platform to connect the world’s energy data. It is a linked open data platform bringing together energy information to provide improved analyses, unique visualizations, and real-time access to data.

A software companion to a 30+ year-old CIA research methodology, Open Source Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) will help you think objectively and logically about overwhelming amounts of data and hypotheses. It can also guide research teams toward more productive discussions by identifying the exact points of contention.

The Google Unemployment Index tracks queries related to "unemployment, social, social security, unemployment benefits" and so forth.

News organizations should be about structured content rather than blobs of text. Structured data is reusable in many useful ways.

The National Data Catalog is an open platform for government data sets and APIs, making it easy to find datasets by and about government, across all levels (federal, state, and local) and across all branches (executive, legislative, and judicial).

Good article addressing issues between the skeptics and the scientists.

Working with large datasets and exploring them. How is your workflow different? Are your goals different? Finding connections amongst the data. Handing off useful tools for your teammates to explore the data.

It appears the cliff diving for U.S. trade is over. The weaker dollar is probably helping exports - and hurting imports.

Great example of how to present a lot of useful, time-sensitive information on a broad topic that's lightly curated.

Where Americans Can See Where Their Money Goes

Provides citizens with easy access to Government contract, grant and other award data.

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

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