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NYT releases Campaign Finance API

As announced on Open, NYT’s open source blog:
The upcoming presidential election has seen record fund-raising by the candidates and a host of new donors. Now we want our users to be able to analyze and reuse some of the data we’ve been looking at while reporting on the campaign.
Read Write Web’s take is on:
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Tell your story with data, without writing a line of code

I’ve been on the hunt for quick and dirty ways to show off data: visualization tools that are free, pretty, and easy to embed in a story.  Here are my finds so far.
Kick-ass embeddable visualizations
Upload your data set to ManyEyes, and you can turn it into all kinds of neat charts and wacky interactive stuff [...]

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What makes a news API tasty? NYT: Gimme some sweet metadata!

Amy Gahran did a great write up on the upcoming NYT API over at E-Media Tidbits:
I think it would be great if more news organizations and journalists could learn a different approach to presenting news — one that provides structure to information that supports both conventional storytelling and remixing, analysis, or alternate representations.
JD Lasica’s take [...]

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