Richard and I were thinking, the hardest part of open data mashups is getting started: namely finding and choosing which datasets you're going to use.
We already had a list of resources for the Open Data Mashup Summer Jam Hackathon, but it wasn't inclusive or easy enough to sort through.
So, we decided to make a little app that creates a random list of datasets, based on categories you're interested in.
Last night I compiled a big json file of data sets compiled from data.gov, our title sponsor Socrata's Open Data Portal, the Awesome Public Datasets repo on GitHub, and the World Bank.
Next, I used the Louis Cuny's multi-select jQuery plugin to create a cool data picker widget and wrote some JavaScript to randomly pick a dataset for each selected category.
That's it really, but I got a lot of help from Stack Overflow and this CSS button tutorial on CodePen.
Built With
- codepen
- css
- data.gov
- firebase
- html
- javascript
- jquery
- jquery.multi-select.js
- socrata
- stack-overflow
- worldbank
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