A world of Data at your fingertips.
Over 1,000 data sets and APIs have been provided by public, private, and nonprofit organizations around the world. And they're yours for the taking as you build the next big thing.
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Databases
The NYC OpenData platform features over a thousand public data sets from City agencies, Commissions, Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and more. Data is available in a variety of machine-readable formats, including APIs, making it easier than ever to consume City information. The platform allows you to access, sort and visualize data in variety of ways, providing the tools and inspiration for BigApps 2014.
Open NY provides access to hundreds of high-quality New York State government datasets, each with an API endpoint and detailed documentation. From liquor licenses to hospital data, it contains valuable and up-to-date information which you can freely include in your next civic-oriented application.
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Enigma is a public data platform bringing together billions of records across federal, state, local and international sources. Spanning everything from SEC filings, to real estate records, environmental violations, import records, demographic data and much more, Enigma provides a single point of access to public data through a web application and data APIs.
Platforms & APIs
Carpoolworld brings people together for ridesharing, using a pioneering search engine that matches individuals based on their trip origins and destinations, anywhere on the planet. The Carpoolworld API gives developers access to the web site's essential functions to create trips, find matches, and contact potential travel partners. The API is developed using the RESTful style. Responses are formatted in XML.
CartoDB wraps any spatial data into an API. Allowing you to query and spatially query data using REST and returning results in JSON and GeoJSON. There is also a Maps API that will let you embed and build maps from data directly into your websites or mobile applications. The platform is scalable, fast, and made to make beautiful maps.
Access (CSRA) API offers a simple way to request information from the CSRHub database of corporate sustainability ratings. Â A developer can easily use the CSRA API to: (1)Â Retrieve high level, intermediate, and/or detailed sustainability performance information on any of 8,800 companies in 102 countries and 135 different industry groups; (2)Â Enter tickers or variants of company names and receive a standard name or CSRHub invariant ID number for any company in the database; (3)Â Request information about companies such as their industry, location (address, city, state, country, zip code, and/or phone number), web site, and/or the web location for their CSR information; (4)Â Request a list of the data sources that have reported information on a company (or a total of the number of sources); (5)Â Request average values for all companies in an industry or geographic area; and (6)Â Request historic data for any month from the present back to December 2008.
The Embedly API retrieves structured data about web pages given the URL. You can integrate embeds from over 250 providers on your site, and surface popular content with analytics. You can gain deeper insights on the articles shared on your site, and improve load times with image optimization.
The Foursquare API powers the location layer of the internet, giving developers access to our powerful reverse geocoder and venue database of over 60 million places. We turn latitude and longitude points into real meaning.
GitHub helps people build software better, together. The API enables developers to build on top of GitHub and extend collaborative workflows into their own tools.
LinkUp only indexes jobs that are found on corporate career websites. Today, our U.S site lists roughly 1,500,000 jobs from over 40,000 company websites. Since we don't allow jobs to be manually posted to LinkUp, and because of the sources we index (real companies), we have the cleanest and highest quality dataset of jobs on the web - no job scams, lead-gen pollution, or fraudulent postings.
Mapbox makes it easy to find bars on foursquare, search for hotels on Hipmunk, and organize notes in Evernote. With Mapbox, design and publish maps that tell stories, integrate with apps, and represent brands.
The SeatGeek API is the canonical source of data on all live events (from sports to concert to theater and more), both within New York City as well as worldwide. You can easily retrieve detailed event information with the SeatGeek API--everything from the lat/lon of a venue to the average ticket price for a show. It’s all wrapped up in a clean, well-documented API, with no rate limits and no cost to use.
Simplify Commerce is an easy way to accept payments online. It's easy for businesses to get a merchant account and take payments, and it's easy for developers to use.
You can easily do recurring payments/subscriptions, create coupons, invoices, store customer and card information.
You already know that NYTimes.com is an unparalleled source of news and information. But it's a premier source of data, too — why just read the news when you can hack it? The Times APIs allow you to work with rich sets of Times data, including article metadata and abstracts, movie reviews and best-seller lists, and NYTimes.com user comments.
Twilio provides a software and cloud-based communications platform that enables developers and businesses to build communications solutions that meet their specific needs.
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Whether integrating voice, messaging or VoIP capabilities into a web or mobile app or building a complete call center, Twilio removes traditional obstacles to creating effective communications experiences.
Yelp allows developers to access rich local data through their Search and Business APIs. Within minutes, developers can retrieve business listing data, star ratings, deals, an image URL, and much more.
API for video recording and playback. Use cases could include: video comments, video messages, video profiles, video reviews and much, much more.
Parse is a backend service that makes it easy to build apps faster.
Yahoo! Query Language provides a consistent interface to many datasets.
Hardware & Devices
3Doodler is the world’s first 3D printing pen. We wanted to design a 3D printing device that could be used within minutes, without any technical knowledge, software or computers.
Compact and easy to use, the 3Doodler allows you to literally draw in the air – whether freestyle 3D sketching or tracing shapes from templates to make larger structures and objects. For more information please go to the3Doodler.com.
Estimote is a technology start-up, building a sensor-based engagement platform for users to communicate with nearby smart phones. Estimote creates small, wireless sensors that use Bluetooth low energy (BLE) to detect the location of nearby smartphones and communicate with them using an API to make it easy for developers to add micro-location features to their mobile apps.
littleBits is the easiest way to prototype with electronics. Simply snap together the magnetic, color coded modules to start building circuits in seconds. No programming, soldering or wiring required. The library includes power, inputs (buttons, sensors, triggers, dimmers etc.), outputs (motors, lights, sound etc.) and wires. See more information at littlebits.cc.
Dedicated to helping businesses deliver the best possible experience across offline and online channels, Nomi provides comprehensive enterprise-grade analytics and proximity marketing in a single platform. Measure, analyze, and optimize marketing programs for your entire audience, from the first-time visitor to the most loyal fan. Know with certainty which investments in marketing, operations, and service attract new customers and keep them coming back.
Launched on Kickstarter in 2012 as the most successful crowdfunding campaign to date, Pebble is the most widely available smartwatch on the market. Pebble is amazing thanks to the thousands of developers who are building apps for it. More info on developer.getpebble.com and simplyjs.io!
We are extremely happy to partner with BigApps this year!
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Loaner Pebbles will be available during the three BigBuilds and you can use this promotion to get $25 off a Pebble for BigApps HERE!
Tessel is a microcontroller that runs JavaScript. It's Node-compatible and ships with Wifi built in. Use it to easily make physical devices that connect to the web.
Loaner Tessels will be available during the three BigBuilds and you can use the coupon code 'bigappsnyc' to get 10% off anything in the Tessel store for BigApps HERE!
Resources
Prototyping On Paper
Free tool that turns hand-drawn wireframes into tappable app prototypes; If you can draw, you can design apps.
inVision
Free tool that transforms your designs into interactive prototypes complete with gestures, transitions & animations for web, iOS & Android.
Justinmind
Free tool that allows you to use rich, interactive wireframes to define web and mobile applications.
Bootstrap
Free HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
TestFlight
Free Over-The-Air platform used to distribute beta and internal iOS applications to team members.
