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-duri… - http://businessjournalism.org/2013/10/01/shutdown-closes-federal-databases-… - 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-g… - 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=0AgpfEpjOJpeEdEV1UnNxbHRkb1RKTn… - Amazon snapshots of Census data: http://censusreporter.tumblr.com/post/55886690087/using-census-data-in-post… - On CensusReporter, all comparison data available in CSV, JSON. E.g. http://censusreporter.org/compare/01000US/040/map/?release=acs2011_1yr&… (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-cros… which might find interesting solutions on federated data and api calls - Missouri State Data Center: http://mcdc2.missouri.edu/ for SF and ACS data. -- Krishnan Viswanathan 5628 Burnside Circle Tallahassee FL 32312