We make lists, spreadsheets and data sets easy to find and monkey around with.
According to a University of Southern California study, humans have stored 295 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data since 1986. Within this ever expanding influx of data we can find information that cures diseases, improves governments and businesses, and helps us understand people and the world around us. Software can help us make sense of overwhelming amounts of data, but only if it is machine readable.
Infochimps is a place to find data that can be read by both people and machines. We seek to help developers, analysts and researchers find, share and sell this data. It is available in a downloadable format they can host themselves, as well as a hosted format they can access with a data API key.
Infochimps was initially the brainchild of two graduate physics students at the University of Texas and received its Series A from DFJ Mercury in 2010.
Some articles about us
- ReadWriteWeb "3 Awesome Twitter Apps Built in 3 Days Using Infochimps API Calls" - April 15, 2011
- GigaOm "One Man’s Data Dump Is Another Man's Data Marketplace" - March 23, 2011
- ReadWriteWeb "Infochimps Shows off New Site, 1000's of New API Calls" - March 11, 2011
- GigaOm "Big Thoughts on Big Data" - March 1, 2011
- ReadWriteWeb "API of the Week: The Infochimps API" - February 14, 2011
- DealBook "Infochimps Raises $1.2 Million for Its ‘Data Marketplace’" - November 8, 2010
- GigaOM "Why a DIY Big Data Stack Is a Better Option" - September 4, 2010
- O'Reilly Radar "Data as a service. A look at how services and widgets are democratizing data and visualization." - July 27, 2010
- Wired "a start-up that is making a market for people to buy and sell large datasets" - June 29, 2010
- IBM "Deriving new business insights with Big Data" - June 29, 2010
- The Register "Yahoo! has plugged its YQL web query language into a third-party API that lets developers access and analyze a sea of Twitter data dating back to 2006" - June 24, 2010
