We are running an Open Government Data Hackday next week in partnership with Talis' Kasabi. It will bring together 20 invited expert developers to build datasets and APIs, demonstrating the possibilities available when structuring data and visually publishing it to the web.

The following is a useful list of visualisation tools, resources and examples of what others are doing with Open Data:

Visualisation

• David mcCandless - information is beautiful http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
• SIMILE visualisation tools http://www.simile-widgets.org/
• Protovis http://mbostock.github.com/protovis/ex/
• D3 http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

The following are from the Open Government Digital Mission to Washington:

U.S. Open data examples

Statestat (thanks Beth and Bryan @bryansivak and team - Jack and Governor O'Malley)

• MD iMap Applications http://www.imap.maryland.gov/Portal/applications.asp
• Fiscal Year 2012 Capital Budget http://mdimap.towson.edu/CapitalBudget/
• Boston Citizens Connect http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/boston-citizens-connect/id330894558?mt=8

FCC (thanks Dan @danmcswain and team)

• Issue Map http://issuemap.org/
• Broadband Map http://broadbandmap.gov/technology

World Bank (thanks Tiago @participatory and team @worldbank)

• National Broadband Map http://data.worldbank.org/products/data-visualization-tools
• Climate Change - The World Bank http://climatechange.worldbank.org/data
• e-Atlas of Global Development – A New Data Visualization Tool for World Mapping http://data.worldbank.org/news/eatlas-of-global-development-released
• The World Bank - Data Visualization http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/data-visualization

Apps for Good/Government/Democracy (thanks Ginny, Chris Vein, Cammie and Google @google team)

• Apps for Good http://appsforgood.org/apps/
• Google apps for Government http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/government/
• Apps.gov http://apps.gov
• USA.gov - government made easy http://apps.usa.gov/
• Health Data Community http://www.data.gov/health
• Economic Research Service http://www.ers.usda.gov/ (thanks Amanda)
• Apps for Democracy http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/application-directory/

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