Theinfo.org - for people with large data sets

Here's a data set that needs scraping, if anyone has the time to spare: speeches and PR communications, esp. those from government officials. Visualizations of what talking points or ideas are spreading through what organizations (political parties, campaigns) and in what countries would be really interesting. Data mining to see which phrases or ideas "stick" in political blogs or on social websites would be neat, also.

A very useful idea. Many databases can be such a pain to find, I'm sure most people don't know they exist.

Plus, I've got a ton of python for doing complex manipulations of sql data and schemas and scraping the web that I've been meaning to share. Will add some to this site.

reminds me of swivel.com, a cool startup that allows you to "upload & explore" data. I talked to someone there and they mentioned comparing weather data to stock prices as an example.

I hope their data visualization section matures.

Cool. When we created Fantasy Congress we scraped the government in Java and then only afterwards did we find out that a friend of ours had scraped it in Perl years before and the Washington Post did it a year ago.

It would have saved us a lot of heartburn.

How cool is that? A cross-organization abstraction for the greater good.

I don't like the font Aaron Swartz always use.