Needlebase™ is a revolutionary platform for acquiring, integrating, cleansing, analyzing and publishing data on the web. Using Needlebase through a web browser, without programmers or DBAs, you can easily:
- acquire data from multiple sources: A simple tagging process quickly imports structured data from complex websites, XML feeds, and spreadsheets into a unified database of your design.
- merge, deduplicate and cleanse: Needlebase uses intelligent semantics to help you find and merge variant forms of the same record. Your merges, edits and deletions persist even after the original data is refreshed from its source.
- build and publish custom data views: Use Needlebase's visual UI and powerful query language to configure exactly your desired view of the data, whether as a list, table, grid, or map. Then, with one click, publish the data for others to see, or export a feed of the clean data to your own local database.
Needlebase dramatically reduces the time, cost, and expertise needed to build and maintain comprehensive databases of practically anything. Read on to learn more about Needlebase's capabilities, then sign up to get started!
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From the blog...
| Needlebase to be retired June 1, 2012 |
We've been hard at work planning how to best integrate Needlebase's technology with Google's portfolio, which includes structured-data initiatives like Fusion Tables, Google Refine, Public Data Explorer, and Freebase. As we focus on our next steps, needlebase.com will be retired on June 1. To ensure our community of users has time to export any needed data, the service will remain fully operational until then. We're looking forward to sharing future product developments as soon as we can. On behalf of the Needlebase team, thank you for all your feedback and support. |
| API Keys |
On Friday September 9 we made a change to the way our APIs work. If you are using any Needlebase APIs, read this post to prevent your scripts from failing. |
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| The Beautiful Data |
On 17 July, Japan won the 2011 Women's World Cup. Here is our statistical hyperindex of all of Women's World Cup History. It tells many stories, but the one for today is probably the 5-Cup career of Japan captain Homare Sawa. |
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