Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will
by anonfunction on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:31AM
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Really great blog post with a great message and composition. As a testament to the theme I wrote an API over a weekend that returned ebola data and it has been very heavily used by people around the world. The astounding thing is that the World Health Organization, from whom I gathered the data, only offered it at the time in the form of PDF files. It's all open source if anyone's interested: https://github.com/montanaflynn/ebola-outbreak-api
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Re:If Data You Have, Consume It They Will
by paulhallett on Friday December 05, 2014 @09:38AM
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This is awesome, and another great example that "If you provide data, people will consume it"!
Doesn't it cost you to host your server and data somewhere? That's not mentioned in the blog post, but I would love to get a ballpark figure for how much $$'s are going out every month to provide this service