NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- New York City's government agencies are
sitting
on a deep reservoir of data -- a geeky treasure trove of
information on topics
ranging from crime reports, building complaints and traffic stats
to public health.
The city doesn't have the resources to unlock all the potential
buried in that data.
So it appealed to those who do: The city's tech entrepreneurs.
NYC turned them loose on more than 350 public data sets, and
asked developers
to invent Web and mobile applications that would use the data in
intriguing ways.
More than 50 teams took up the challenge.
[...]http://money.cnn.com/2011/04/05/technology/bigapps_nyc/index.htm