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A collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science
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www.datasciencetoolkit.org is down #61

Open mlucool opened 8 years ago

mlucool commented 8 years ago

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but www.datasciencetoolkit.org/ is down. Verified by: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.datasciencetoolkit.org/

mikedolanfliss commented 8 years ago

I experienced the same. I found a few forks my R code could reference... but then ended up with using the new geocoding API from the census. Note Pete Warden's blog post on DSTK and "new management." I'm not so sure they're maintaining it... which is too bad. It's a beautiful package.

http://petewarden.com/2015/09/27/openheatmap-and-datasciencetoolkit-under-new-management/

fredclown commented 8 years ago

It is truly a bummer as dstk is the only solution I have found for offline geocoding. While the census bureau does have an online geocoder there are businesses that could never use it (such a US medical institutions) because they would have to transmit the address data over the internet. DSTK scratched this itch right nicely. Too bad the latest TIGER data in it is from 2012 I believe.

mikedolanfliss commented 8 years ago

Yeah. FWIW, this thread seems to celebrate GisGraphy. Seems to work locally if you can manage to set it up.

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/18871/is-there-an-open-source-geocoding-tool-which-can-be-used-commercially

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It is truly a bummer as dstk is the only solution I have found for offline geocoding. While the census bureau does have an online geocoder there are businesses that could never use it (such a US medical institutions) because they would have to transmit the address data over the internet. DSTK scratched this itch right nicely. Too bad the latest TIGER data in it is from 2012 I believe.

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