Political science and big data resources from JITP

I'm cleaning out papers from my files, tired of carrying around all these dead trees. Here are notes on nifty resources mentioned at the JITP conference a few weeks ago.

TDT: topic detection and tracking (http://projects.ldc.upenn.edu/TDT/)

Socrata, the Open data company (http://www.socrata.com/)

Google's Data Liberation Front (http://www.dataliberation.org/)

TESS: Time sharing experiments in the social sciences (http://www.tessexperiments.org/)

TREC (Text retrieval conference) benchmark data sets (http://trec.nist.gov/data.html)

And the good old American National Election Study (ANES) (http://www.electionstudies.org/)