Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Catch of the Day - DataMasher - 1/11/2011

With DataMasher users can mash up some government data to find out how states compare on important issues. Users can combine different data sets in interesting ways and create their own custom rankings of the states.

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DataMasher helps users manipulate the voluminous amount of federal government data by creating mashups to visualize them in different ways and see how states compare. DataMasher is a tool that can be applied to situations where combining data sets and visualizing the result may be critical to understanding.

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Most of the DataMasher data is pulled from Data.gov (an official website of the US government) and directly from federal government sites. Some comes from third parties that draw upon federal or state data sources.

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Watch a video explaining DataMasher

DataMasher specifically states that they are not, of themselves, statistically rigorous. The validity of each mashup is the product of its creator.

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