InfoChimps Datasets API - Articles
InfoChimps is a data platform and marketplace for sharing and selling data of all types. The InfoChimps Datasets API provides access to 2,000 "tables" of data across several categories, including science, government, sports and music.
The site allows for searching for datasets by keyword, cost and tags. Sample API calls are documented along with each dataset. Free datasets can be accessed up to 100,000 calls per month, then InfoChimps offers tiered pricing.
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Accessing Open Data via APIs: Never Mind the App, Is There a Market for That?
Exversion is hoping the need to access wide-ranging open datasets has matured enough to create a viable business as an open data marketplace. Their new Exversion API provides developers with a RESTful interface to search and access the open datasets stored on the Exversion data platform. At present, the API returns queries in JSON or XML format, with full XML support to be provided in the near future.
InfoChimps Bundles Many Location Sources in One API
Data marketplace InfoChimps continues its march to API-ify its most useful, sliceable datasets. The latest is a bundle it calls the InfoChimps Geo APIs and it makes available some extremely interesting location data from both public and private sources. The company has created a location data schema to unify sources, which include several place databases, Wikipedia articles and Zillow neighborhood boundaries.
5 Important Factors for Pricing Data in the Information (Overload) Age
Do you remember what it was like to figure out what was going on in your city fifteen years ago? You probably called your friends. Less than 20% of U.S. households were online. People learned about local news and events from newspapers, TV and their friends. I remember a lot of nights that we were frustrated “nothing cool was going on.” Information was scarce, and people still paid for it.
Aliens Revealed in InfoChimps' UFO Sightings Dataset
InfoChimps, those enterprising primates, have another incredibly interesting dataset to offer up to the world: 60,000+ UFO Sightings. And you thought that they didn’t exist! Now you’re going to have to apologize to the believers that you mocked because this dataset has come to set the record straight. Aliens exist and the evidence is the InfoChimps Datasets API, which makes searchable every documented sighting.
1 Weekend, 3 Great Twitter Applications Built on Infochimps
Data marketplace Infochimps is enabling devs to build more interesting Twitter-powered applications. Recently, the three new apps below were built in a weekend. But the speed to produce Twitter apps isn't the only thing that's fast. So is the Infochimps Twitter API, according to one developer.
Four Twitter Mashups Available as One API
The company that released PageRank for Twitter has added several new calls to its API. Your applications can now build on top of the analysis from "big data" company InfoChimps--and it's free for limited usage. The sorts of tools we've seen in popular Twitter mashups are now part of the InfoChimps collection of Twitter API calls.
Four Twitter Mashups Available as One API
The company that released PageRank for Twitter has added several new calls to its API. Your applications can now build on top of the analysis from "big data" company InfoChimps--and it's free for limited usage. The sorts of tools we've seen in popular Twitter mashups are now part of the InfoChimps collection of Twitter API calls.