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DAYTUM. Urban EcoMap. Pachube :: connecting environments, patching the planet. Google Fusion Tables: Data Management in the Cloud - information. Google Labs recently announced the launch of Google Fusion Tables [googlelabs.com], an experimental system for fusing data management and collaboration: merging multiple data sources, discussion of the data, querying, visualization, and Web publishing. Users can upload, share and sync datasets, fillter and aggregate the data, and then visualize it on Google Maps or with other visualizations from the Google Visualization API. Fusion Tables also enables the discussion of data at different granularity levels, for instance to discuss individual rows or columns or even individual cells between different collaborators.

"The power of data is truly harnessed when you combine data from multiple sources. For example, consider combining data about access to fresh water in various countries with data about malaria rates in those countries, or as shown here, showing three sources of GDP data side by side.

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Playing With Foursquare Data. Foursquare has a lot of data about me and I willingly give it more most days. Foursquare lets me check-in to a specific location. I earn badges based on where I check-in, how often, and with whom for the various cities I am in. In addition to letting me share my movements with friends I am building up a history of places — not just points. Foursquare uses OAuth to let me share these places. WhereDoYouGo is an ITP project that creates a custom-colored heat map of your Foursquare haunts. (via Gizmodo) Last Night’s Checkins, created by the seemingly ubiquitous Barbarian Group, sends me a mail (almost) every day listing the previous day’s venues.

Mobzombies is a soon-to-be-released iPhone game (I first played it several years ago on custom hardware) . Foursquare isn’t just a geo platform. You can see all of the current Foursquare API apps (like place-ranking site SocialGreat) in their developer portal. Unemployment rate - Google - public data. SpatialKey — Location Intelligence for Decision Makers. Where Does My Money Go: Explore UK Governmental Spending - infor. Where Does My Money Go? [wheredoesmymoneygo.org] is an interactive data visualization tool that allows users to explore UK's public spending patterns over the past 6 years using an array of maps, timelines and graphs.

Relevant documents and datasets were scattered around numerous government websites as, in the UK, there is no equivalent to the US Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act , which requires official bodies to publish figures on spending in a single place. Currently, the project is based on data retrieved from the HM Treasury , but the project is working to collect, aggregate and incorporate much more fine-grained information, including local spending. The graphs include trends surrounding areas such as Education, Health or Defence, which each can be further explored into more detail and over time as well as distributed over local regions. See also: - SubsidyScope - California Stimulus Map - DataMasher - USASpending - Socrata.