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Nice work! I hear about these challenges in collaborating on research all the time. Developing a platform like this is a significant investment for most teams, and for many, the de…

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Cool. Seems similar to https://bountify.co/

Some data stores (Mongo, CouchDB) do support in-place updating of JSON objects

I'd love to know as well. There's a lot of great data on doctors in the US at data.cms.gov and data.medicare.gov. Socrata, the company I work for, builds and hosts the APIs so let …

Probably because of the way government contracting works with (value added) resellers. One such is "Carahsoft" (see http://openbeta-contracts-explorer.usaspending.gov/#!/year/A... …

A lot of this data can also be browsed by mere mortals at http://openbeta-contracts-explorer.usaspending.gov/ . More information is available at https://openbeta.usaspending.gov/ t…

Pretty cool. Haven't gotten it fully working yet (posted an issue on github) but thanks for sharing!

Consider checking out US Dept of Commerce's Census of Governments - it has a lot of information. There's also a big trend of state/local governments opening their budgets and expen…

What type of civic technology/innovation? Typically, the ecosystem around open data is much more forthcoming and, well, open. Consider checking out http://slack.opendatacommunity.i…

Nice work. What's the use case?

I noticed that and a broken link too.. sent a PR on Github

A web tool that took a CSV or JSON endpoint and ran a few R/Python/whatever scripts to see what the mean/mode/min/max of each column was, if there were any strong linear (or other …

Also check out https://data.nasa.gov/data?category=&search=&type=datasets (linked to from open.nasa.gov) which all have consistent APIs -- so you can write code once and re-use it …

As mentioned before, this sounds like some BI tools. The collaboration feature set, specifically, is part of jackdb.com it appears.

Are you willing to use a third party platform to host the data on? Check out CartoDB.com Mark S / @Skram

via Twitter for a challenge.gov challenge. We ended up winning and turning the software into a company and got a government contract.

open.whitehouse.gov is HTTPS :)

It is in private beta

rtrivedi - do you have an email I can reach you on? I work for the company that helps Medicare.gov (and a lot of other govt agencies) publish their data online in machine readable …

This is great especially considering the REST API meaning this can be adapted to other environments other than mobile...

You might want to check out https://tempo-db.com/about/