World Bank Data Visualizer

World bank launches an interactive visualizing tool resembling gapminder, it’s called Data Visualizer.

‘The time series used in Data Visualizer is a subset of 2009 World Development Indicators database. It contains 49 indicators for 209 countries and 18 aggregates from 1960-2007. Data includes social, economic, financial, information & technology, and environmental indicators.’
Tools allow to change the [...]

Hal Varian (Google) and Tim O’Reilly (O’Reilly Media, Inc.), “Measurables”

Gov 2.0 Summit Videos (from Google Public Sector Blog)
Monday, September 14, 2009 | 11:45 AM
If you weren’t able to make the Gov 2.0 Summit last week in DC, you’re in luck – videos of most presentations are now online.
We’ll post an update when Ola Rosling’s presentation on public data search and visualization is online.
Tim O’Reilly [...]

BetaWorks from Australian Bureau of Statistics

Julia, thanks for the link in your comment of the previous post. I hope you do not mind I display your site in this way as well!/Best regards Alf

What is ABS BetaWorks?

ABS βetaWorks is a development environment for new designs and concepts for the ABS website. βetaworks allows ABS Designers to showcase what we’re working [...]

Twitter – ABS launches TableBuilder

From Space Time Research website:
Twitter – ABS launches TableBuilder

Use TableBuilder for ad hoc analysis of Australia’s 2006 Census data, and create tables of up to 5 million cells! http://bit.ly/zzIWR
TableBuilder also works on the iPhone http://twitpic.com/fjire

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Why open standards matter

On this blog we usually showcase best practices of how to communicate statistics and keep the technological aspects of it in the background – which is the right way to do. But we also never get tired of mentioning how statistics is a basis for informed decision making and therefore a foundation for democracy. To [...]

Comparing Thematic Maps

Statistical graphics are most convincing when they allow for interesting comparisons. A pie- or bar-chart allows comparisons in one data dimension as does one map, it shows how one variable varies in different regions. But data analysis shouldn’t stop here. Diagrams like the animated population pyramid or the gapminder/trendalyzer allow comparisons in more than one [...]

Open Data Initiative – Free SuperVIEW hosting of data

From Space-Time Research blog:

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2009

Open Data Initiative – Free SuperVIEW hosting of data

Space-Time Research this week launched a new program called the Open Data Initiative at the International Statistical Institute (ISI) 2009 conference in Durban.

What is the Open Data Initiative?

The Open Data Initiative is a Web 2.0 site for disseminating public data. [...]

Datablog – News – guardian.co.uk

World carbon emissions, by country

Click on image for big picture Image: World Resources Institute
Datablog Full figures, for every country in the world
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US emissions, compared to the world’s

Roll over lines to get the data. How bad are US carbon emissions? These [...]

“Rosling’s World: The best statistics you’ve ever seen” (from Swedish Television)

Hans Rosling in action. Foto: TED.com
Rosling’s World: The best statistics you’ve ever seen
Hans Rosling is a professor in international health, who has made an unlikely global success. His presentations on global development evokes laughter, rejoice and reflections. People with power, like Al Gore or Bill Clinton, ask for his advice. He wants everyone to question [...]

“Tourist Maps” of statistics on Slovenia

In Slovenia we’ve recently published the Interactive Statistical Atlas of Slovenia – an online tool for presenting statistical data on maps. It was basically developed for “tourists” (less experienced users), to help them view regional statistical data in a clear and easily understood way.
Demo: Population ageing in Slovenia

You can enter the application from the entry [...]

“Data is the New Hot, Drop-dead Gorgeous Field”

Data is the New Hot, Drop-dead Gorgeous Field (From FlowingData and New York Times)
Posted by Nathan / Aug 7, 2009 to Statistics / 1 comment
We all know this already, but it’s nice to get some backing from The New York Times every now and then. In this NYT article, that I’m sure has spread to [...]

Timetric Makes Web Data Useful with Time Series Analysis

Timetric Makes Web Data Useful with Time Series Analysis (from ReadWriteSTART)
Written by Jolie O’Dell / August 5, 2009 8:40 PM / 0 Comments
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This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs. The channel is sponsored [...]

Spezify: Search Engine for Visualized Statistics?

Stockholm-based startup Spezify is a visual search engine that impresses with relevant results displayed in a visual but still functional way.
Founded by Felix af Ekenstam and Per Persson, digital creatives who have over 10 years of experience in the space, Spezify arrived in beta in April and launched officially about six weeks ago. Results are [...]

Yebol: Semantic Search Engine for Statistics?

Have a try with for example “official statistics“!

More structure in results in Yebol than Google.  Only “statistics”  or other combinations like global and international give interesting variations in  patterns of results.
Yebol offers categorised search results for about 10 million search terms. Within half a year “every possible search term” is said to be included. See [...]

Yahoo Pipes – still going strong

Mixing up several web services into a new web service – a mashup -  is made easy with Yahoo Pipes (see earlier post).
Yahoo Pipes is also capable of integrating csv-files and with this becomes interesting for statistics (globalizes official statistics).
An example with data from the US census Bureau:

Another one for UK Cities

This example used an [...]

A New View of Data.Gov

A New View of Data.Gov (from Google Public Policy Blog)
Friday, July 10, 2009 | 3:09 PM
On May 21, the Obama administration launched Data.gov, a web site that provides access to raw data from federal government agencies. Access to this raw data is useful, but to unleash the power of the data, you need tools for [...]

Real-time Search

In the age of microblogging search engines have to be very, very quick in indexing the continuous stream of information. The search engine Collecta indexes blogs, blog comments, microblogs like Twitter, Jaiku and also fotos in Flickr.

In order to find out more about search engines beyond Google see the article of  Ryan Singel in WIRED [...]

ReadWriteWeb Interview With Tim Berners-Lee, Part 1: Linked Data

Written by Richard MacManus / July 8, 2009 6:00 AM / 8 Comments
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How Linked Data Relates to The Semantic Web
RWW: Earlier this year you gave an inspiring talk at TED about Linked Data. You described Linked Data as a sea change akin to the [...]

Though Obama Viewed Positively, Still Much Criticism of US Foreign Policy: Global Poll

Though Obama Viewed Positively, Still Much Criticism of US Foreign Policy: Global Poll
July 7, 2009
Country-by-Country Summaries (PDF)
Questionnaire/Methodology (PDF)
Full PDF Version
A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll finds that around the world US foreign policy continues to receive heavy criticism on a variety of fronts, even though in 13 of 19 nations most people say they have confidence in [...]

Is the Economy Getting Ready to Turn Around? (from Flowing Data)

Is the Economy Getting Ready to Turn Around?
Posted by Nathan / Jul 6, 2009 to Economics, Infographics / 2 comments

Is the economy going to turn around any time soon? How does this economic swing compare to previous cycles? Amanda Cox et al of the New York Times explores these ever so important questions in [...]