Excellent idea from The Guardian: Datablog, and the associated Data Store.
Everyday we work with datasets from around the world. We have had to check this data and make sure it’s the best we can get, from the most credible sources. But then it lives for the moment of the paper’s publication and afterward disappears into a hard drive, rarely to emerge again before updating a year later.
So, together with its companion site, the Data Store – a directory of all the stats we post – we are opening up that data for everyone. Whenever we come across something interesting or relevant or useful, we’ll post it up here and let you know what we’re planning to do with it.
How to get data out of the Data Store
Mmm, data…
Update:
There’s more: Get your API hats on. Could be really interesting to see how this develops.