The ProPublica Data Store. ProPublica is making available the datasets that power our data journalism. The raw data we received as the result of a FOIA request is available for free, and datasets that reflect substantial cleaning and processing by our staff are available for a one-time fee. Journalists and academic researchers can purchase premium datasets, and interested commercial users can contact us for pricing, by clicking the "Purchase" button on any dataset.
We also provide a pass-through link when a data download is available on another site. Related Story » Premium Datasets (Purchase) Cleaned up, categorized and often created from multiple sources, these Premium datasets are unique to ProPublica and sold for a nominal fee. FOIA Data (Free) Because ProPublica received these datasets from a FOIA request, we're posting the original, raw datasets free for download. External Data ProPublica frequently uses datasets that are free and available online. Cloud download icon by Ugur Akdemir. The Scoop. [nytlabs] Project Cascade. New York Times - Linked Open Data. USA Today toys with a side business: selling commercial access to its data. One year ago, USA Today opened up its massive database of articles, reviews, census figures, and sports salaries to the public. The newspaper provided open and well-documented APIs to software developers, but access was limited to personal and noncommercial use.
Last week the newspaper quietly changed that, offering commercial licensing of its data on a case-by-case basis. Premium licenses would remove rate limits and caps for data-hungry programs, too. That means USA Today can make money selling its data and app developers can make money using it. The newspaper also lifted commercial restrictions from its collection of census data, one of its most popular APIs.
While the data is publicly available, USA Today assembled it from multiple sources and structured it in a predictable, developer-friendly way. Stephen Kurtz, the newspaper’s vice president of digital development, said the move is in response to requests from developers looking to build paid apps with USA Today’s data. The Guardian's Open Platform is open for business | Open Platform. Today we're announcing that the Open Platform is officially open for business.
We have improved and rebuilt the API, added a new application framework and developed an experimental commercial model around the whole initiative. Go ahead and try the new API now. You can play with it using our new API Explorer. There's also a full Getting Started Guide with both a quick-start and a deep-dive into what's available and how it works.
The first thing to say is 'thank you' to everyone who participated in the Beta program. You have helped us prove that this wasn't just a good idea but that it was actually going to be something people would use to create value. We had over 2,000 developers register and over 200 apps, products,visualisations, tools and client libraries built against the Beta API. Now we want to invite you to try the newly relaunched andupdated API. One of the nice new features is that you can access much of the APIwithout a key, including headlines, tags and metadata. Don’t think of it as a newspaper — it’s a data platform. Open newslist | News.