Recently, I gave a workshop at Open Data Day whose goal was to demystify JSON. I searched, but couldn't find any tools to do this that worked inside the browser. The only solution was to make a new one!
Continue readingFDLP Allergic to Curl
Waldo Jaquith discovered that the FDLP (Federal Depository Library Program) appears to have an allergic reaction to people downloading their data with basic command line tools.
Continue readingfdlp․gov blocks requests from cURL with a 403 and a "malware detected" error. >:-/
— Waldo Jaquith (@waldojaquith) January 2, 2013
Tools for Transparency: Google Fusion Tables
Just look at any one of Sunlight’s projects and you’ll realize that it takes a mountain of data to help... View Article
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