The Big Apps Contenders: Developer Tools

We covered the launch of the Big Apps competition here in NYC back in October. The voting opened this week for the “popular choice” and each day we will take a look at one category. Today’s category is “Developer Tools“. Remember you are only allowed one vote across all categories so make sure to look at all the apps before casting your vote.

• Actuatr – Actuatr is a platform that simplifies opening up data to developers. In one step, anyone can upload their data and immediately get a simple API with auto-generated documentation ready for developers to use for building innovative applications for the web or mobile devices.
• PushpinWeb – PushpinWeb provides a platform for public data to thrive.  Developers and everyday citizens can not only explore detailed data about any location in New York City, but can also use Processing-driven visualizations to power high-level understanding.
• Remarkable – Remarkable is a different kind of public feedback system, built for the NYC.gov Data Mine. The goal of this application is to organize and prioritize feedback in a way that is easily digestable for the decision-makers behind the data, improving the data we get.
• simpler/gov - Simpler/gov is a platform that connects people and data. Simpler/gov lets you interact with state and local government data on the web. The data is alive and active; you can ask multiple questions, get results instantly (in seconds), and then ask again.