pilot dataset/use cases

[joehand]

From @maxogden on July 16, 2013 18:46

describe and link to datasets that I can use as a way to pilot/test out dat!

via @loleg:

• extracting financial data from 26 Swiss cantons and their 2500 administrational units (cities etc) - for instance, over the weekend I hacked on a command line PDF converter which I just posted to Scraperwiki
• scraping the national law database into a reasonably parseable format that allows semantic annotation (i.e. NLP + legal ontology) and visualization, one of several ideas for a legal hackday I'm organizing
• collating personal data from participants in an open (as in, the door is ajar) loyalty program and packaging it up for social science researchers in a way that the corporates get the oversight they need to not shut us down
• creating an activity feed of the dozens of projects we've started in our Open Data community, combining social/site metrics with GitHub, wiki, forum updates
• setting up a grassroots (p2p?) datastore that people can chuck ideas into / collaborate à la (the now defunct) BuzzData, build their APIs against before moving somewhere more stable, basically the idea for http://datalets.ch -- must be easy enough to use to bring into schools, teach people coding with

others:

• normalize, enrich and export species interaction data through http://eol.org using existing species interaction datasets. Here is the current workflow
• make it easier for election data providers (states, cities) to publish data feeds so they can be consumed by https://votinginfoproject.org/

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