Now that the govt shutdown has taken our favorite data websites down, many of us are searching for alternatives. Here is a list of alternatives from Opennews call (https://etherpad.mozilla.org/opennews-calls-Oct9). I am sure you all can add other sources as well and hopefully will find this useful:

Links describing what's up, down, and alternatives:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/10/08/how-to-get-census-data-during-the-government-shutdown/

http://businessjournalism.org/2013/10/01/shutdown-closes-federal-databases-alternatives/

FYI, congress is still up: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php / http://beta.congress.gov/

IRE data library http://ire.org/blog/ire-news/2013/10/01/ire-keep-data-library-open-during-government-shutd/

Quandl has mirrors of some datasets http://www.quandl.com/help/sources#US+Bureaus+and+Agencies

IRE maintaining spreadsheet on "Government Data Availability" https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgpfEpjOJpeEdEV1UnNxbHRkb1RKTnIzSGpQXzRPLUE&usp=sharing#gid=0

Amazon snapshots of Census data: http://censusreporter.tumblr.com/post/55886690087/using-census-data-in-postgresql

On CensusReporter, all comparison data available in CSV, JSON. E.g. http://censusreporter.org/compare/01000US/040/map/?release=acs2011_1yr&table=B27001 (under "Download")

http://enigma.io is furnishing hackers and journalists with public data during the shutdown: https://twitter.com/enigma_io/status/385158274959835137

Knight granted in the prototype fund a grant to "CrossCloud" http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2013/6/25/introducing-crosscloud-project-get-your-data-out-silos/ which might find interesting solutions on federated data and api calls

Missouri State Data Center: http://mcdc2.missouri.edu/ for SF and ACS data.

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