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Friday, January 25, 2013

Intelligent Data for your Apps and Analytics by DataWeave

Banglore based DataWeave provides easy-to-access data APIs over data that exists on the Web. It helps users discover, monitor and visualize public data on the Web in a uniform format

: data APIs, dashboards and visualizations. Data examples that businesses find useful are pricing data and open data. The ideal of DataWeave is, “Data must be easily accessible and readily available to all users”.

Operational from April 2011, DataWeave creates datasets by aggregating data (both structured and unstructured) from disparate sources that are continuously changing, extracting relevant data from these sources and making them available through easy to use data APIs. Users get data in json format, now, but can be provided with data in any of the standard formats (xls, csv, xml …)

DataWeave makes data access easy through some of the following APIs

  • Telecom Data API
  • Coupon codes API
  • Universal Product Code (UPC)
  • Book Price Search By ISBN
  • WPI Index API
  • Earthquakes API
  • India Trade Data API
  • World Economic Indicators
  • WPI Index API - Monthly

Similar data providers are PriceWeave.com, datamarket.com, factual.com, semantics3.com.