We're participating here in Portland getting the Earth Policy Institute's (http://www.earth-policy.org) XLS data files available via an API and making them look beautiful in Drupal :).
From Sunlight Labs' Great American Hackathon site:
"On the weekend of December 12-13th, we're holding an open, distributed, nationwide hackathon to develop open source applications to open government. The goal is to solve as many open government problems as we can with as many hackathons across the country as possible. We've teamed up with Mozilla, Google, Redhat and Fedora, who will all be working with their developers to make things happen, and we've teamed up with Open Source for America and Code for America —there are opportunities for everyone to make a difference. And we'd love for you to join us."
Here in Portland we'll be working with Earth Policy Institute (http://www.earth-policy.org) XLS data files. Our goals are as follows:
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to combine EPI's XLS files into a single database
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give open access to this database via a JSON API
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make compelling datagraphics.
At the moment the project lead, Joe Meyer, will be working on the API and I, R.J. Steinert, will be working on utilizing this API to display data with the help of the Drupal framework. I'm hoping we'll have time to some cool stuff with the data utilizing processing.js. If anyone is interested in helping out feel free to contact me. Also check out our Hackathon project page for more information.