Nathan Heeded the Call to “Grab the Data and Go”
Over on our “See it in action” page, we posted links to all the data feeds that power twittervotereport.com, in addition to a couple of alternate ways of feeding the #votereport reports. Those feeds are listed under a noted saying “developers, grab the data and go!” Well, Nathan Freitas, saw that and said, well, all right. Now, Nathan built the #votereport Android app several day back, but he hasn’t since had the time to work in close contact with the small knot of developers who have been building out some of the core tools. Nathan, though, popped back into our Google Group late this afternoon and said, in effect, “here, I made this“– where “this” was an interface for reports that sorts and displays the data in a bunch of different way. No one knew what Nathan was up to, but no one had to. Armed with a Geo-JSON feed, Nathan had everything he needed to make a huge contribution to the project.
That was only possible because this group has by design been an open efforts focused on open standards, from inception. And now we have some rather awesome and powerful visualizations as a result. Must be a lesson in there somewhere…
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