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
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.
From Chronicle of Philanthropy: As part of an effort to create a broad discussion about the future of the nonprofit world, Independent Sector has created a new Web site.
The organization, which is a Washington association of about 600 charities and grant
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
The estimated number of people displaced in the Philippines by a devastating storm on Saturday has doubled, to more than 435,000, according to government officials. Officials are calling tropical storm Ketsana, which dumped a month's worth of rain in six
BWINDI IMPENETRABLE FOREST, Uganda (Reuters) - Lurking deep in the mist-glazed forests of east Africa, Uganda's mountain gorillas are preparing to 'tweet' for their survival.
With the launch on Saturday of the "Friend a Gorilla" campaign, human fans will
Interesting new research on how effective (or not) multitasking is. I know it's a way of life, but good food for thought re making us more productive...
Steve Ressler, a former IT auditor with the Department of Homeland Security, spent a lot of time studying the world's terrorist networks. He later developed a keen interest in different kinds of networks, and founded Young Government Leaders, Washington,
In the years that I've been involved in social media, I have heard so many misconceptions and myths about social media that I am certain this article is long overdue. Here is a list of the top five misconceptions regarding social media:
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
From my vantage point, I have identified six major differences between SharePoint and Drupal. They include:
1. Setting up a local development environment is difficult and expensive.
2. Setting up an efficient development/deployment process is cumbe
This tool allows you to input an Ical URL and you can change the time zone so it shows appropriately in your gcal. Great because gcal doesn't currently let you do this for calendars you import.
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.
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
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
