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Top new questions this week:

Public source for financial company customer counts?

I've built a dashboard that uses complaints data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to show the companies with the most complaints. The results are kind of interesting, but also rather …

data-request finance-data

asked by Jeremiah Orr 2 votes answered by magdmartin 2 votes

Difference(s) Between Datahub.io and CKAN

datahub.io is powered by CKAN, and as far as I can tell, seems like a watered down flavor, perhaps for a certain user base. The about page isn't very helpful..does anyone know the exact differences …

ckan data-catalog

asked by albert 2 votes answered by amercader 5 votes

Is it a good idea to think of defining a DCAT vocabulary in other languages?

IMHO, Project Open Data does a great job defining a standard metadata vocabulary based on DCAT for government datasets. Would it be a good idea to start defining DCAT metadata terms in other …

metadata

asked by wilhelmbot 2 votes

Catalog.data.gov using CKAN API with python requests package

I'm not sure if this is a requests issue, a CKAN API issue, or a catalog.data.gov issue. I can do this GET query: import requests import json r = …

data.gov ckan

asked by Rich Signell 1 vote answered by amercader 3 votes

Geospatial Open Data from Sri Lanka or India

Has anyone come across open geospatial data sets from India or Sri Lanka? I'm looking for city, district and state/province boundaries

geospatial

asked by Ashwin Balamohan 1 vote answered by I.M. 1 vote

When city and neighborhoods established

Is there any resource that contains information showing when cities, towns and neighborhoods were established? I am personally looking for information regarding Fort Lauderdale, FL, but I think it …

city municipal history

asked by Ryan Gates 1 vote answered by Joe 0 votes

Greatest hits from previous weeks:

Should data APIs require registration and API keys?

When publishing a data API, there seems to be a conflict between requiring a user to sign-up for an API key and the principal of open access. What is best practice in publishing an open data API …

api releasing-data best-practice licensing

asked by D Read 10 votes answered by Konklone 7 votes

Which real-time open data APIs do you know?

As far as I can tell open data is mostly offered as some kind of file download, that contains the complete data set. I'm aware of some Web services, e. g. World Bank API, that allow you to feed a …

api real-time

asked by ramiro 2 votes answered by Dave 3 votes