Ask HN: What company/industry would you like to see open their data?

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Post by rokhayakebe » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 6:03 AM UTC

Ask HN: What company/industry would you like to see open their data?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 6:09 AM UTC

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Post by mahmud » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 6:09 AM UTC

The military.

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Post by panic » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 6:45 AM UTC

Google. :D

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Post by matt-kantor » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 6:59 AM UTC

The US government.

We're making progress, but there's a long way to go.

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Post by codexon » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 7:05 AM UTC

AT&T

I'm sure they have plenty of data from their cooperation with the NSA.

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Post by sachinag » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 7:09 AM UTC

In the UK, postcodes - unlike US ZIP codes, they're not free

Retail product data - books, movies, music, games, electronics, etc: you can kinda do this through affiliate programs, but it's not great

Drug companies - studies can be killed if the data looks bad; we should be able to see every study, completed or not, and all the associated data so we can do comparative analyses

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Post by Janteh » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 7:10 AM UTC

IMDB! With a powerful API please.

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Post by brg » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 7:11 AM UTC

Amazon. One can see sales trends of every book, cd, dvd, clothing, and electronics store across the world. This would be amazing.

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Post by brg » Thu, Oct 08, 2009, 7:15 AM UTC

brg wrote: post #9

Amazon. One can see sales trends of every book, cd, dvd, clothing, and electronics store across the world. This would be amazing.

Come to think of it, does anyone know if Amazon doesn't turn around and sell sales data back to competing manufacturers? This data would be a huge benefit in terms of where to focus advertising money and bundling efforts.