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Nice work! I hear about these challenges in collaborating on research all the time. Developing a platform like this is a significant investment for most teams, and for many, the development and maintenance is a distraction from their mission. The company I work for, Domino Data Lab, has a language/ algorithm-agnostic platform that solves for this. We have a trial for teams who want to take a look and offer a free subscription for academic institutions.

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Cool. Seems similar to https://bountify.co/

Some data stores (Mongo, CouchDB) do support in-place updating of JSON objects

I'd love to know as well. There's a lot of great data on doctors in the US at data.cms.gov and data.medicare.gov. Socrata, the company I work for, builds and hosts the APIs so let me know if I can help in any way!

Probably because of the way government contracting works with (value added) resellers. One such is "Carahsoft" (see http://openbeta-contracts-explorer.usaspending.gov/#!/year/A...). If you dig into the details of the transactions you'll see that many are for technology companies' software and services. One example link that includes Salesforce, HP, VMWare, Symantec, etc.: http://openbeta-contracts-explorer.usaspending.gov/#!/year/A...

A lot of this data can also be browsed by mere mortals at http://openbeta-contracts-explorer.usaspending.gov/ . More information is available at https://openbeta.usaspending.gov/ too.

Pretty cool. Haven't gotten it fully working yet (posted an issue on github) but thanks for sharing!

Consider checking out US Dept of Commerce's Census of Governments - it has a lot of information. There's also a big trend of state/local governments opening their budgets and expenditures to the public in new and engaging ways. Some examples:

- http://www.checkbooknyc.com/

- http://budget.dallasopendata.com/#!/year/default

- http://miamidade.budget.finance.socrata.com/#!/year/default

- http://budget.topeka.org/#!/year/default

* Disclaimer: I work for Socrata which powers all of the above links except for NYC Checkbook

What type of civic technology/innovation?

Typically, the ecosystem around open data is much more forthcoming and, well, open. Consider checking out http://slack.opendatacommunity.io/

Nice work. What's the use case?

I noticed that and a broken link too.. sent a PR on Github

A web tool that took a CSV or JSON endpoint and ran a few R/Python/whatever scripts to see what the mean/mode/min/max of each column was, if there were any strong linear (or other types) of correlations, etc.

A lot of example datasets can be found on opendata.socrata.com, data.gov, data.atf.gov, data.cityofchicago.org, and more.

Also check out https://data.nasa.gov/data?category=&search=&type=datasets (linked to from open.nasa.gov) which all have consistent APIs -- so you can write code once and re-use it as opposed to having to write a new API wrapper for each disparate data set

Disclosure: I work for the company that helps run data.nasa.gov

As mentioned before, this sounds like some BI tools. The collaboration feature set, specifically, is part of jackdb.com it appears.

Are you willing to use a third party platform to host the data on? Check out CartoDB.com

Mark S / @Skram

via Twitter for a challenge.gov challenge. We ended up winning and turning the software into a company and got a government contract.

open.whitehouse.gov is HTTPS :)

It is in private beta

rtrivedi - do you have an email I can reach you on? I work for the company that helps Medicare.gov (and a lot of other govt agencies) publish their data online in machine readable formats and I'd love to get feedback from you and understand how you're using the data and potentially make the data publishers aware of this use case as well. You can reach me at [email protected] if you prefer not to post your email publicly.

Great job!

This is great especially considering the REST API meaning this can be adapted to other environments other than mobile...

You might want to check out https://tempo-db.com/about/

Check out http://opendata.stackexchange.com/ - a very similar question has been asked there.

There are many. Here's a starter list:

- http://programmableweb.com/

- http://apis.io/

- http://mashape.com/

- http://api-portal.anypoint.mulesoft.com/apis/travel-local-an...

This seems like a good idea but wont it be able to find someone out by looking on linked in for a unique skill set?

I've seen a number of job sites make it so you can exclude folks from certain companies from seeing your profile...

Unfortunately, the ability to truly replicate the Uber apps is unavailable in the completely open API in that you cannot order rides.

3scale is one of many API management providers. I have no personal experience with 3scale but some other alternatives off the top of my head to check out include apigee, mashape, and mashery.

You will need somewhere to deploy the API and likely will want some way to manage users of the API. For deployment, almost any web host that supports your tech stack should do.

See apievangelist.com for resources on everything API related.