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about | Datamob: Public data put to good use Clipped from: http://datamob.org/about

Public data put to good use.

Datamob aims to show, in a very simple way, how public data sources can be used .

We believe good things happen when governments and public institutions make data available in developer-friendly formats. Things that can help save us from bad government and bad decisions.

We're out to find the good things, and get developers excited about the data.

You can help. Contribute high-quality public data sources and apps . Post a link to the data behind an app. Build an app on top of a data source and post a comment about it.

Follow along on Twitter . RSS feeds are available for data , apps , resources , everything . JSON , too. Questions? Get in touch .

Datamob was built with Rails and Heroku in 2008 in coffee shops around New York City by Sean Flannagan and Lauren Sperber .

Content on Datamob is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 ^[14].

Datamob currently lists 227 data sources ^[15], 165 apps ^[16] and 66 resources ^[17], which are categorized by 67 tags. It's sort of like this: