A note was posted to the Sunlight GoogleGroup list recently pointing to:
http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/
A free, self-contained, ready-to-run VM with apps+data for
- geocoding (using geocoder.us. I'm assuming TIGER and OS data)
- geodict "pulls country, city and region names from unstructured English text"
- political boundary lookup (various sources)
- lots of data processing tools, eg pdf ->text
- more
It doesn't look like a data warehouse, but it looks like a natural complement to one, and has that "easy to install and use" approach that makes it very interesting. Of course that's "easy for the data hacker". :)
Thoughts?
Brian
