Have you ever tried looking for data sets on the web? Things like a zip code database or a country list? If you have, you certainly know how hard it is to find reliable and clear sources.
Luckily the guys at Infochimps.org are here. In their own words this is what Infochimps is about:
Infochimps is an open library and marketplace for the world’s data. You can share, sell, curate, and download data about anything and everything.
In nutshell, while at QVApps we focus on sharing/selling QlikView apps at Infochimps they focus on data. Infochimps and QVApps are a demonstration of what you can read in the Economist report on managing information. The world is being submerged by a vast amount of data and this bring challenges as well as opportunities.
We see Infochimps as an important partner and a great resource for all QlikView developers out there as via Infochimps you can get access to extremely interesting datasets. Just to give you an example, the Twitter 2009 QVD file has been created from the Twitter dataset released by Infochimps.
We have created a quick presentation to show you what you could do with the Twitter QVD. We will explain in a separate post how we did that:
We’d really like to see some QlikView developers tapping into the vast amount of data sets available on Infochimps.org and come up with some great apps.
On Infochimps you can also sell your datasets, so while at QVApps we focus on QlikView specific formats (i.e. QVD) on Infochimps you can sell any type of datasets and in any format by becoming a publisher.
We have really enjoyed working with Infochimps on the Twitter data and we are looking forward to the future releases from Infochimps.
In the meantime we strongly encourage all QlikView developers to visit Infochimps.org and find inspiration for creating some interesting QlikView Apps from those great data sets.
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