New Strikeiron Widgets on Greenhouse

Nicole Carrier  August 11 2008 02:34:11 PM

Last week we released five new widgets on Greenhouse from partner Strikeiron.  For those of you unfamiliar with Strikeiron, they host a set of useful services that businesses can 'rent'.  For example, rather than have to write an 'address verification' function or a 'Credit Check' service, you can purchase those services-- typically based upon the number of hits you need (per month or year).

The widgets we released from Strikeiron are as follows:


These widgets wrap several of Strikeiron's 'lite' web services, which customers can play around with for free.  So what can you do with these services?  Well, below is an example of something I built really quickly using the Census Information widget and IBM Mashup Center.  The mashup is pretty simple.  Enter in a zipcode to see a chart of the age distribution of the population, as well as a chart of the racial makeup for that population.  

I happen to live in a town on the coast of New Hampshire, which I perceive to be extremely homogenous and also a bit on the old side.  My perceptions are clearly backed up by the data shown below:
Rye, NH


The makeup of my town is very different from where my sister lives in California, which is more racially balanced:

Salinas, CA


For those of you interested in playing around with this mashup yourselves, you can do so by going to the Mashup Center catalog on Greenhouse.  Once there, search for a page called  "Strikeiron Census" and import it into your Mashups environment.  I also encourage you to try charting other data from the Census service, including % of male/female, # of children, total households, etc.

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