Four short links: 3 April 2014

Github for Data, Open Laptop, Crowdsourced Analysis, and Open Source Scraping

by Nat Torkington | @gnat | +Nat Torkington | April 3, 2014

dat — github-like tool for data, still v. early. It’s overdue. (via Nelson Minar)
Novena Open Laptop — Bunnie Huang’s laptop goes on sale.
Crowd Forecasting (NPR) — How is it possible that a group of average citizens doing Google searches in their suburban town homes can outpredict members of the United States intelligence community with access to classified information?
Portia — open source visual web scraping tool.

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