I’ve had this idea that I can’t shake and I’d like to ask your advice.
Some years ago I was gifted silly.io. For a while I called it the Ministry of Silly Things and it had JSON data sets of US States, Countries, planets of the solar system, table of elements, letters of the alphabet and a few other things. A visitor could download the JSON, link directly to it from other environments like an experimental data language for kids that I was working on. You could also embed it as a table in your own page, or use it as a source to make interesting graphs, learning games, etc.
I’m thinking of rebooting the project to be a Wikipedia for Computable Data. It would be like Wikipedia in that anyone can add to it. It would be computable in that all fields have schemas and units. This would let you compute something like:
show the thickness of iPhone models over time from 2007 to the present plot the atomic mass of elements vs their atomic number graph letters of the alphabet by number of syllables 🙂
Do you think this is a good idea? Should I spend time working on it and if so which datasets should I start with.
It would be completely open source and creative commons, BTW.
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