More Public Data

Last week Google announced public data in search and trends, and now Amazon has released a bunch of public data for use on EC2.

I can’t wait to start playing with some of this data, eg:

The Twilio / Wigle.net Street Vector data set provides a complete database of US street names and address ranges mapped to Zip Codes and latitude/longitude ranges, with DTMF key mappings for all street names. This data can be used to validate and normalize street addresses, find a list of street addresses in a zip code, locate the latitude and longitude of an address, and so forth. This data is made available as a set of MySQL data files.

via http://bit.ly/iEg0D

Intellectual Foundations and Practical Applications of CrossFit

Scientific observation played a large role in Crossfit’s evolution (Greg Glassman cites coming from “a family of rocket scientists living in a community of rocket scientists” as the source of his scientific rigor).

Open source also important to the Crossfit Community—I always thought Crossfit was on the leading edge of open source / online social community / game mechanics, but did not know that all of this was explicitly by design.

Part I: http://bit.ly/3Hmm8
Part II: http://bit.ly/U6ZYB
Part III: http://bit.ly/JJyjE