As individuals, corporations and even governments make more information available online, people are beginning to find new, everyday uses for it. By tinkering with data and pairing it with user-friendly software, normal citizens – with entrepreneurial minds – are finding unique ways of making the mounds of information floating in the cybersphere an asset for you and me.  

Think of it as a friendly form of hacking. Instead of breaking into confidential files and wreaking havoc online, the world’s ‘closet’ coders and developers are manipulating data for the good of all.