Data Science Toolkit API
The Data Science Toolkit includes many data sets and open-source tools, with REST/JSON API and Python and Javascript interfaces. API includes components to help parse places, text, and people.
Programmable Web, Ajay Ohri, February 11th, 2013
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Data Science Toolkit is a collection of the best open data sets and open-source tools for data science, wrapped in an easy-to-use REST/JSON API with command line, Python and Javascript interfaces.
The Data Science Toolkit is essentially a specialized Linux distribution, with a lot of useful data software pre-installed and is available as a self-contained Vagrant VM or EC2 AMI.
The API includes the following sub components:
- Text to Places ...
- IP Address to Coordinates ...
- Street Address to Coordinates ...
- Coordinates to Politics ...
- File to Text: If you pass in an image, this API will run an optical character recognition algorithm to extract any words or sentences it can from the picture. ...
- Text to Sentences ...
- HTML to Text ...
- HTML to Story ...
- Text to People: Extracts any sequences of words that look like people's names, and tries to guess their gender from any first names found ...
- Text to Times ...
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