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• U.S. Census Bureau - 1990 Names

  Offsite — Frequently occurring first names and surnames from the 1990 Census.

• GOP.gov API

  Offsite — The GOP.gov API provides biographical, contact, and voting information about Republican members of Congress; contact information and member listings for House of Representatives committees; and information on bills and votes in XML. Nearly RESTful; requires an API key which is tied to a GOP Portfolio account.

• BART API

  Offsite — Developer-friendly real-time estimated time of arrival (ETA) feeds, transit schedules, advisory feeds and trip planning information for Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), serving the San Francisco Bay Area in California. RESTful API returning results in XML. Licensed under a simple License Agreement with no usage limitations.

• Bureau of Economic Analysis Data

  Offsite — National, international, regional and industry economic data. Downloadable in CSV format.

• Bureau of Labor Statistics

  Offsite — Data on labor economics. Most tables available in tab-delimited and comma-delimited ASCII text.

• U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics

  Offsite — U.S. crime data, much of it downloadable in CSV and ASCII formats.

• Capitol Words API

  Offsite — The Capitol Words API provides several methods of accessing detailed information from the Capitol Words database of word frequency from the U.S. Congressional Record. Returns results in JSON and XML.

• Census 2000 Planning Database (for Census 2010)

  Offsite — The Tract Level Planning Database With Census 2000 Data is a database that assembles a range of housing, demographic and socioeconomic variables that are correlated with mail nonresponse. Using data from U.S. Census 2000, a database containing these variables has been developed for all census tracts in the country. The variables included in the Tract Level Planning ...

• U.S. Census Data

  Offsite — Variety of tools for accessing U.S. Census data, including direct file access.

• U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line Data

  Offsite — Data files for the U.S. Census Bureau’s experiment in web-based mapping: the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) system. Shapefile format.

• 2000 U.S. Census in RDF

  Offsite — By Joshua Tauberer.

• Chronicling America API

  Offsite — Open programmatic access to information about historic American newspapers (1690-present) and select digitized newspaper pages (1880-1922). Returns results in Atom or Linked Data via RDF. Searching newspaper pages is also possible via OpenSearch. No API key or registration needed. Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress ...

• New York City Baby Name Data

  Offsite — Two CSV files available for download: all New York City baby names dating back to 1920, and New York City baby names broken down by ethnicity, dating back to 1990. Data supplied by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, compiled by Jennifer 8. Lee for the New York Times City Room Blog.

• Civic Footprint API

  Offsite — Look up the political geography of any address in Cook County, Illinois.

• The New York Times Congress API

  Offsite — Get biographical information on Congresspeople dating back to 1947 and voting records dating back to 1989 in JSON and XML. Based on information from THOMAS, senate.gov, and house.gov. Read the announcement on Open for more information. See also the New York Times Congress API Ruby Wrapper with Congresh Shell.

• New York Times Congress API Ruby Wrapper with Cong

  Offsite — An easy Ruby wrapper for the New York Times Congress API. Also provides a command shell called Congresh for interacting with the API directly. Available for download under an MIT License.submitted by: Patrick Ewing

• CorpWatch API

  Offsite — The CorpWatch API uses automated parsers to extract the subsidiary relationship information from Exhibit 21 of companies’ 10-K filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, providing a free, well-structured interface for programs to query and process the data. Although the SEC provides a search interface for locating company filings (EDGAR / IDEA), the subsidiary ...

• Unofficial Chicago Transit Authority API

  Offsite — An unofficial, RESTful API for the Chicago Transit Authority. Get data for bus locations and routes. Results returned in XML. By Harper Reed.

• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care U.S. Hospital Perfo

  Offsite — U.S. hospital performance and efficiency data.

• Data.gov: Airline On-Time Performance

  Offsite — Data derived from the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics containing on-time arrival data for non-stop domestic flights by major air carriers. Also contains departure and arrival delays, origin and destination airports, flight numbers, scheduled and actual departure and arrival times, cancelled or diverted flights, taxi-out and taxi-in times, air time and non-stop ...