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DataMasher is a do-it-yourself mashup site - Sacramento Bee - 0 views

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    DataMasher is relatively new site that collects data produced by the federal government (much of it pulled from Data.gov) and makes it available as a downloadable spreadsheet or interactive map.
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digiday:DAILY - Meet the Nation's Deputy CTO - 0 views

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    Virtually overnight, sites like ThisWeKnow.com and Datamasher.org created sites that parse this data into a true information grid where you can find out things like how states compare on virtually any criterion.
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Data Portability for Good | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network - 0 views

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    For four weeks this summer, we got a crash course in data transparency. Along with 3 colleagues, we volunteered to develop an entry for the Apps for America 2 contest, sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. Entrants built useful applications incorporating
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DataMasher Mention: Sunlight Foundation Illuminates Government's Back Pages -Miller-McC... - 0 views

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    Sunlight Labs has created a kind of online app store (a free one, that is) for open government, with about 100 apps that do things like track which senators are most likely to block legislation using a filibuster (the aptly named app "filibusted"), or to
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5 Ways to find, mix and mash your data :: 10,000 Words - 0 views

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    One of the most popular trends in online journalism is taking publicly available data and translating it into visualizations or infographics that readers and viewers can quickly and easily understand. A large percentage of the visualizations you see on th
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Legistalker « East Baton Rouge Parish Library InfoBlog - 0 views

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    Legistalker is a wonderful site for keeping track of members of Congress and the Senate. The site accumulates references to politicians that appear in news stories, on YouTube, also their twitter feeds and the appearance of their names on bills.
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'Apps For America' Shows Innovative Ways to Display Government Data - Poynter Online - 0 views

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    Datamasher also has the potential to be a journalistic tool -- a starting point for stories. If you suspect crime and poverty are increasing in your state, check it out.
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These crusaders bring transparency to government - Latimes.com - 0 views

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    Government pooh-bahs live by the credo Information is Power. Here are a few of the guerrillas working to overthrow the resulting dictatorship.
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More on obesity, geography, and class - The Atlantic - 0 views

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    Gary Chapman, of the University of Texas, has created this way of envisioning the relationship between income and obesity. Concept: the shading varies with the obesity rate divided by median household income. This is a not-immediately-obvious way to prese
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The Ingenuity of the American People - White House OMB Blog - 0 views

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    Today, we celebrate the ingenuity of the American people with the announcement of Datamasher.org as the winner of the Apps for America contest. Datamasher.org provides the public with a simple interface to mash up government datasets to analyze and visual
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DataMasher: Create MashUps & Visualize US Government Data Sets - Makeuseof.com - 0 views

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    DataMasher is an interesting website which lets citizens visualize and play with the data sets released by US government everyday. The data, which is usually sourced from data.gov, contains stats like poverty rates, unemployment rates, obesity in the US a
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Making the most of government data - Joho the Blog - 0 views

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    Washington, DC - The Sunlight Foundation awarded Datamasher.org with the grand prize of $10,000 for Sunlight's Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge. Datamasher.org is a Web application designed by Forum One Communications that lets anyone-no program
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DataMasher: Get Freakonomic On Government Data - ReadWriteWeb - 0 views

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    If you're a lobbyist / advocate, conspiracy theorist or Freakonomics fan, then you'll love DataMasher. The map-based mash up site just took the Sunlight Foundation's $10,000 grand prize in theApps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge. DataMasher offers u
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Developers build useful, fun apps with fed data - Network World - 0 views

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    WASHINGTON -- The White House's data.gov effort is spurring the creation of some entertaining and informative applications from private developers. Take for instance, DataMasher , which allows you to take two sets of data and merge them. Popular mashups
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Making the Most of Government Data - Gov IT Journal - 0 views

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    The Sunlight Foundation has picked two winning mashups in its contest: Washington, DC - The Sunlight Foundation awarded Datamasher.org with the grand prize of $10,000 for Sunlight's Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge. Datamasher.org is a Web appli
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Fun With Government Data: DataMasher.org - Gordon Ryan blog - 0 views

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    Apparently, people in New England are either really into birth control or just don't like getting it on. Either that, or every other state in the U.S. is full of Catholics or people that can't find anything better to do than procreate. At least that's my
Kurt

Developers build useful, fun apps with fed data - ComputerWorld - 0 views

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    Computerworld: The White House's data.gov effort is spurring the creation of some entertaining and informative applications from private developers. Take for instance, DataMasher, which allows you to take two sets of data and merge them. Popular mashups
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DataMasher wins Sunlight's Apps for America 2 contest - Federal News Radio 1500 AM - 0 views

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    Imagine a way to explore and have fun with government data. The winners of Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest say that 'fun' was part of their winning formula. The Alexandria-based Forum One just won the $10,000 first place prize at the O'Reilly M
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Forum One's DataMasher Receives First Place in 'Apps for America 2' Contest - SYS-CON UK - 0 views

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    Forum One's press release picked up by a UK virtualization publication.
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