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Hosted chart and graph creation software.

ArcView is full-featured GIS software for visualizing, managing, creating, and analyzing geographic data.

Opensource DVD backup utility.

Online backup for a small fee for unlimited storage.

Backup to CD-RW, DVD, FTP or LAN with Scheduler, ZIP compression and Encryption

Add-on for the built-in backup software in Windows.

BeInSync is a straightforward package, installed on each computer, that allows users to sync files across multiple computers.

big data hadoop

Data recovery software

Online data backup.

CDex is a tool that enables you to extract digital data directly from an Audio CD into plain WAV files (useful for making compilation audio CDs) or compressed using an audio encoder.

UNESCO develops, maintains and disseminates, free-of-charge, two interrelated software packages for database management (CDS/ISIS) and data mining/statistical analysis (IDAMS).

Cicero is a web service API that easily integrates into an organization's existing web application or data management software to match any address to its correct legislative districts. Available legislative districts include local council districts in more than 100 cities and state and national districts in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, and Australia. In addition to geocoding addresses and matching them to the correct legislative districts, Cicero also returns maps of each district and information about each elected official. Cicero also provides non-legislative district matching for counties, school districts, watersheds and police districts.

The Cicero team just released a new dataset - match addresses to the district id's of newly approved, redistricted legislative districts.

A Hadoop distribution that has scripts to launch in Amazon EC2.

Hadoop is the popular open source implementation of MapReduce, a powerful tool designed for deep analysis and transformation of very large data sets. Hadoop enables you to explore complex data, using custom analyses tailored to your information and questions.

Automatic offsite backup. Leave your computer connected to the net, and files are backed up to a remote server on a regular schedule.

Design and analyze reports drawing from multiple data sources.

DataMasher helps citizens have a little fun with that data by creating mashups to visualize it in different ways and see how states compare on important issues.

EasyRecovery™ Professional data recovery software is the complete solution for your data recovery, file repair and disk diagnostic needs.

Exhibit lets you easily create web pages with advanced text search and filtering functionalities, with interactive maps, timelines, and other visualizations

Create RSS for any web page.

Online questionnaire tool that supports online surveys, forms, polls, quizzes and of course web-based questionnaires

Conference calls for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Scheduled or on-demand. Free and premium services available.

Grants management software for funders.

IN DEVELOPMENT

GlobaLeaks is the first open-source whistleblowing framework. It empowers anyone to easily set up and maintain a whistleblowing platform. GlobaLeaks can help many different types of users: media organizations, activist groups, corporations and public agencies.

With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.

Wordpress plugin to host surveys on your own site

HTML parser for Ruby on Rails

Impure is a visual programming language aimed to gather, process and visualize information.

A mobile app for controlling visual media and metadata in a manner that allows the person capturing the media to secure, protect it, and share it with only the people you intend to.

InformaCam uses the built in sensors in modern smartphones as well wi-fi, bluetooth, and cell tower information to create a snapshot of the environment in which an image or video was captured. This validates the date, time and location of capture. Digital signatures and encryption ensure that your media hasn't been tampered with and can only be opened by the intended recipient.

Browser-based Time, Attendance, Note, and Service Billing data entry tool using iPods, iPads, laptops or PDAs for multiple and remote locations and facilities - works with Client Payroll Manager and Case Records Manager

Opensource data analysis and visualization tool.

LOTE is an easy to use geographical projection converter, downloadable application

Web 2.0 website for data graphs and charts.

An freeware administrator tool, N.E.W.T. scans all remote networked machines on single or all domains and attempts to retrieve a wealth of detailed information. It shows this data in a spreadsheet-like format for a concise, overall view of your network.

NoteMind helps you to collect and to organize information centrally in one single place.

Shadow 3 enables automatic, continuous back up of photo, music, data, and video files to virtually any attached storage device.

IN DEVELOPMENT

OONI is the Open Observatory for Network Interference and its aim is to collect high quality data using open methodologies, using Free and Open Source Software (FL/OSS) to share observations and data about the kind, methods and amount of surveillance and censorship in the world

A document management system and office workflow solution based on "bottom up delegation" concept. Requires no software or hardware purchase for gathering source documents in a virtual office.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Pestagram takes information from one site - the intimate, emotional, mobile Instagram and presents it with the context of Pinterest - the public, aspirational, image packrat site to illustrate the ease with which information and data associated with your person can be used for other unintended circumstances.

PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system which allows you to easily create custom maps, tables, and charts.

Prefuse is a set of software tools for creating rich interactive data visualizations. The original prefuse toolkit provides a visualization framework for the Java programming language. The prefuse flare toolkit provides visualization and animation tools for ActionScript and the Adobe Flash Player.

IN DEVELOPMENT

Priveazy aims to be a free one-stop resource for showing people exactly what they can do to protect their online privacy and protect the security of their devices and online accounts.

Prune is an application for managing coordinate data from GPS systems.

Network backup software that runs on Windows

SEOmoz's trifecta tool, analyses a site with data from various web services and rolls them up into a score from 0 to 100.

SimplePie is a class, written in PHP, for reading RSS and Atom syndication feeds.

After installing and enabling Smart Trim module for Drupal, you should see a "Smart trimmed" option in the format dropdown for your text fields. With smart trim, you have control over: 1) The trim length, 2) Whether the trim length is measured in characters or words, 3) Appending an optional suffix at the trim point, and 4) Displaying an optional "More" link immediately after the trimmed text.

Social Actions is an open source database of actions people can take on any issue. The actions in its database are aggregated from across the social web and include everything from volunteer opportunities to micro credit loans.

Social Actions encourages social tech programmers to develop web applications that intelligently distribute the actions in its database across the websites, social networks, and mobile phones that millions of people use every day. The overarching goal of Social Actions' work is to make the web more action-oriented, or in other words, to make it easier for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference.

A collection of tools that help you back up the data in your social media presence.

Spanning Salesforce lets you track your most important Salesforce.com information—including leads, opportunities, contacts, events, tasks, documents, and more—using RSS. And by using the same technology that powers podcasting, Spanning Salesforce deli

Splunk is an application that specializes in indexing and searching on time-based data from heterogeneous sources. It has decent ad-hoc reporting tools to generate various reports and charts. Base version is free; gradual pricing for "enterprise" features.

Data backup software.

Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data

Program that allows you to add classy, unobtrusive styling to tables—particularly useful if you have a lot of data and want to make it more accessible.

Automatic backup program for Mac Leopard.

Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data.

Hard drive imaging, backup, and bare-metal restore for Windows Server.

Scans the hard drive for deleted but recoverable files and allows user to restore them.

Data Visualization and Metrics software

Weka is a collection of machine learning algorithms for data mining tasks. The algorithms can either be applied directly to a dataset or called from your own Java code. Weka contains tools for data pre-processing, classification, regression, clustering, association rules, and visualization. It is also well-suited for developing new machine learning schemes.

Wufoo provides an easy way to collect information over the Internet. It is an HTML form builder to help create contact forms, web surveys, invitations, registrations and online payment pages without writing any code.

Website that provides a quick summary of demographic data for any US Zip Code.