Pubwan

= a proposed project in open source, non-profit data mining

URL = http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Pubwan

Description

"Pubwan is a proposed project in open source, non-profit data mining. Applications to consumer economics, consumer education and consumer decision support are of especial interest. Activities of interest include data collection, data aggregation, encoding of normative criteria, data analysis and mathematical modeling.

There is an unmet need for aggregation of tabular data in the public domain. Software has had a presence in the public domain for some time, and now there is a lot of text in the public domain thanks to Wikipedia and other GDFL works. What is still lacking in the public domain is the type of machine-readable commercial data (there is a good deal of scientific data) suitable for analysis with database or spreadsheet applications." (http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Pubwan)