This year
Stephen Wolfram Blog : The Personal Analytics of My Life
It takes time.I’ve been interested in data for a very long time, I started doing this long ago.
2011
DataSF - Liberating City Data
by Xavier Lacot
2010
The Restaurant-Failure Myth - BusinessWeek
His research—consistent with similar studies—found that about one in four restaurants close or change ownership within their first year of business. Over three years, that number rises to three in five.
Data | The World Bank
Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sources.
2008
Open Library API (OpenLibrary)
The Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive. Its goal is to create an online catalog that contains one web page for every book ever published. To do this, it accepts data from a variety of sources: libraries, publishers, book-sellers, and individuals.
OCLC and the Great Library Scandal | booktwo.org
Plutôt que de se battre sur le code source libre, les données *publiques* livres placées dans des silos, c'est plus dommageable.Why are our publicly funded libraries locked into a monopolistic relationship with a clearly greedy data supplier? Why are they paying thousands of pounds to access their own data? Why are the public, whose money is paying for this, locked out of the system?
