Posted on August 18, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
‘”Semantic Technology is here.” That was the resounding message delivered at the 2008 Semantic Technology Conference (“SemTech”) that took place 18-22 May in San Jose, California.’ (said a member of the organizing committee)
There is increasing activity in the field of Semantic Web: Conferences, software development, websites (258,000 results for semantic web googled and 61,300,000 for [...]
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Posted on August 7, 2008 by Alf Fyhrlund
Interested in the up- and downswings of European and national economies? Watch the Business Cycle Clock (BCC): Eurostat’s new graphical interface for displaying in an animated fashion developments of the Principal European Economic Indicators. Click on time and choice of indicators to compare your country with EU and USA!
Filed under: 01 New on the Web, 030 User orientation, 031 Data visualization, Eurostat, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 6, 2008 by Alf Fyhrlund
http://vitagate.itn.liu.se/smartdoc/html/GAV-Flex-2008-08-04/OECDApplication.html
This is a new version of GeoAnalytics (the old one was presented at the OECD/Statistics Sweden Seminar recently) which use the same type of system as Gapminder for visualization. No installation of any program except for Flash. The interaction is quite good taking in consideration the big volumes of data. There are no Help menues yet but [...]
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