"A multi-faceted visualisation of the world's 50 highest peaks. The interactive graphic, made using Tableau Public, features a clickable map of the summits, satellite images of each peak and figures for each mountain's prominence and overall elevation." Nice.

"We break the package deal »you get our app, we get your data« with remoteStorage, a cross-origin data storage protocol separating application servers from data storage." Yes to the principle.

"Let me propose the following neo-Stoical attitude to the problem, which will no doubt ease the psychic pain of the next OMG-my-data-has-gone-from-a-“free”-service! controversy. If your data exists only as hosted by “free” services on the internet, you should assume not only that it’s not your data, but that it doesn’t even exist at all. That way, you’ll be less upset when one day it vanishes without trace, and you can greet personal erasure with splendid equanimity."

Good suggestions for API access levels.

"The entertainment industry's leading aggregator of movie and TV trailers, game previews, and music videos. With 500,000 unique video assets from over 1000 content providers, IVA has established a reputation as the archive of record for audio visual samples."

"A power tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to databases like Freebase."

NASA says, "the evidence for rapid climate change is compelling".

"Build your own multi-purpose mobile self-tracking application."

"Gives developers the ability to leverage cloud computing to build very precise streams of data from the millions and millions of tweets sent everyday."

"All the tools you need for Screen Scraping & Data Mining."

"In the cozy confines of personal life, we rarely used the power of numbers. The techniques of analysis that had proved so effective were left behind at the office at the end of the day and picked up again the next morning. The imposition, on oneself or one’s family, of a regime of objective record keeping seemed ridiculous. A journal was respectable. A spreadsheet was creepy. And yet, almost imperceptibly, numbers are infiltrating the last redoubts of the personal. Sleep, exercise, sex, food, mood, location, alertness, productivity, even spiritual well-being are being tracked and measured, shared and displayed."

Stamen's @shawnbot has put together a great context/history of dataviz for the class he is teaching at SVA in NYC:

"While it is important to understand how the algorithms work, it is not necessary to work the maths by hand. There are some first class freeware datamining programs available that do all the heavy lifting, so long as you know how to prepare the data and how to set the parameters of the algorithms so they produce valid results."

"Employing an internal data griot makes a lot of sense: someone who can spend the time looking for both large trends and individual needs and uses that illuminate and portend. It’s a hard job, needing a mix of skills rarely found – a smidgen of hard maths and statistics, a pinch of programming, and dessert spoons of various liberal arts. The Economist (sub required) posits them as data scientists (a position Flickr are currently looking for), but this misses the ability to ask interesting questions, and having hunches – being so immersed in the data that relevancy screams out."

"A platform where anyone can share and mash open data on any subject. For example, you might find a directory of US restaurants, a database of endocrinologists, or a list of video game cheat codes. We provide smart tools to help the community build and maintain a trusted source of structured data."

"An open catalog and marketplace for the world's data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything."

"Analysis: The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products."

"A service that can turn practically anything on the web into a JSON feed that any website or mobile app can consume. A JSON conduit, if you will."

"A media aggregation platform built for the public display of up-to-the-minute activity on realtime services like Twitter."

"What makes my heart go pitty-pat is the swarm of data that the sensor in the wheel captures and transmits. Not only does it track info about the biker (riding time, effort, calories) but it also grabs info from the environment, like temperature, carbon monoxide, noise and humidity. You can share this info with friends, and also with your city by making an anonymous donation of your data. The end result? A community of data-contributors helping cities build more accurate models of routes, noise, carbon emissions and temperature. All this data can be used inform urban planning, transit systems and environmental policies in service to sustainable cities."

"The current Facebook privacy policy already allows your “publicly available information,” which includes your name, gender, geographic region, friends list, fan pages, and your content marked “everyone,” to be automatically shared with external web sites when you visit them. The only thing apparently preventing this from happening right now is technology – Facebook has not yet rolled out an official means for Facebook Connect sites to automatically access such data. Apparently they soon plan on adding that technology for certain “pre-approved” sites, an update which the newer governing documents make more explicit."

"Never warp your brain with time zone math again. "

How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?

"What my shell script does is allow you to automate correctly backing up a standard MySQL database, or databases, with full end-to-end encryption to an offsite location."

"The prototype Datastore for London. This is where we’ll be releasing all of the Greater London Authority’s data for all Londoners to see and use free of charge."

This is wonderful.

"Although these stories are reports about medical research, they are really about computing – in the sense that neither would have been possible without the application of serious computer power to masses of data. In that way they reflect a new – but so far unacknowledged – reality; that in many important fields leading-edge scientific research cannot be done without access to vast computational and data-handling facilities, with sophisticated software for analysing huge data-sets."

"A musical clock made of stars. To make this, I downloaded public data from Hipparcos, a satellite launched by the European Space Agency in 1989 that accurately measured over a hundred thousand stars. The data I downloaded contains position, parallax, magnitude, and color information, among other things. I used this information to plot the brightest stars, and cause them to revolve about Polaris (the North Star) very slowly, as the stars appear to do. Like the night sky, this is a sidereal time clock -- it takes nearly 24 hours for the stars to fully rotate."

"We are making more of our geological data available in open formats so that they can be used in mashup type applications within software such as Google Earth (please note the terms and conditions of use for Google's and any other software). We hope these services stimulate innovative uses of our data and promote interoperability."

"Many of the BGS's most popular datasets are available to search and view online."

"For our first hack day, I put together a list of “tools for non-developers”—sites, services and software that could be used for hacking without programming knowledge as a pre-requisite. Here’s the list so far."

"Each unit of UK electricity is currently causing this much CO2..."

Finally had a chance to read this. Very good; an Instapaper classic.

"With this tool, you are able to import both realtime and historic Pachube data (i.e. sensor and environment data) into popular 3D CAD package Google SketchUp. The incoming data can be used to generate or modulate a 3D model of a building or environment, and enables sophisticated design-decisions that are based on actual (and not simulated) sensor and environment data. Possible uses include designing interactive façades, undertaking post-occupancy evaluation (which is where you evaluate how well the design performs) and sensor-based form generation." In love.

"Band Metrics decided to create the Music Data Exchange Format (MDEF), a free, open and portable XML based format for the purpose of sharing data relative to musicians and bands."

"Two calls for Delicious data are now supported inside BOSS: the number of times a URL has been bookmarked and the top tags that users have applied to categorize that URL. Delicious has its own API, but it's not as helpful as this integration with BOSS is."

"In short: OU academic Tony Hirst produced a rather lovely map, on the suggestion (taunt?) of the Guardian’s technology editor, Charles Arthur, and the result? A brand new politics story for the Guardian on MPs’ expenses."

"Guardian Open Platform is a chasmic leap into the future. It is a work of simplistic beauty that I’m sure will have a dramatic impact in the news market. The Guardian is already a market leader in the online space but Open Platform is revolutionary. It makes all of their major competitors look timid. Governments should be doing this. Governments will be doing it. The question is how long will it take us to catch up."

"The Guardian launched its 'Open Platform' with APIs for all of its content and a sets of data collected by its editors." Brave. Ace.

"A web site where you can type up some lists and have them handy if you need them later." Can generate lists as JSON, a MySQL insert query, or Plain Text.

"A project of WideTag, Inc., a technology infrastructure company providing innovative solutions for an Open Internet of Things."

"Maps generated from the location data of over 28,000 pubs from www.beerintheevening.com. Each pixel on the maps corresponds to 6.5 km2 on the ground."

Winners announced.

"Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure."

"Intelligent schema migrations for Django apps."

"form follows data - data visualization & visual communication"

"The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated."

Great!. "I’m talking about building beautiful things out of (sometimes) boring data sources. I’ll be talking less about design and visualisation, and more about projects and ‘things’."

"I think we should create a Wikipedia for data: a global database for all of these important data sources to which we all contribute and that anyone can use."

Run-through of Tom Coates' latest presentation. Shame the slides themselves aren't available (nag, nag, nag).

"For shared visualization and discovery."

"Explore and compare data, graphs and maps, Share insights via email, blog or data downloads, Upload the data you care about."

"Provides information on all current TV and radio programmes across the BBC."

"Generate large volumes of random, custom data for use in testing software"