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by DerekH 4716 days ago
For some reason, I'm always fascinated by governments releasing APIs for public data. It seems like a data set you could do some powerful things with. When governments take the time to build out a nice API to consume this data, it makes me like them more, too.

AT&T just did a civic hackathon in Chicago with Chicago's open data portal: https://data.cityofchicago.org/browse?limitTo=apis