About necessary and unnecessary things

In a interview given at a technology symposium at the Embassy of Finland in Washington (15 October 2009), ‘Berners-Lee speaks about the importance for governments to place great amounts of data on the Web and the emergence of the semantic Web. He cites successful examples in Britain.’

And he repeats what he already said in one [...]

Prague Conference – Statistics and Internet

The conference “Statistics – Investment in the future 2″ took place in Prague from 14 to 15 September 2009.
More than 100 participants attended 22 sessions.
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The session ‘Statistics and the Internet’ saw 4 presentations:
Managing the Internet in a statistical institution
Leon Oestergaard, Statistics Denmark
Influence of the Internet on dissemination of official statistics
Tomaz Smrekar, Statistical Office of 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 [...]

Just published: Web 2.0/3.0 and Official Statistics

Statistical Journal of the IAOS 2008
Volume 25, n° 3-4/2008

Special Issue: Web 2.0 and Official Statistics

Editorial, pp. 79-80
GARDNER Jessica – Blogs, wikis and official statistics: New perspectives on the use of Web 2.0 by statistical offices, pp. 81-92
Abstract

THYGESEN Lars, SUNDGREN Bo – Innovative approaches to turning statistics into knowledge, pp. 93-102
Abstract

TEN BOSCH Olav, DE JONGE [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

What’s New@OECD July 2009, revised (some extracts)

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Bookmark  the OECD Factbook 2009 – Mobile Edition on your iPhone, Blackberry or any phone, and access the 100 top OECD indicators from anywhere: Factbook 2009 – Mobile Edition
OECD Statistics Newsletter features articles migration statistics, synergies between official and [...]

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 [...]

Webinar 15-16 July: Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge, Washington D.C.

Instructions for joining the webinar. (See also Wikpedia.)
Program and presentations.
Invitation to the seminar.

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 [...]

The Semantic Web Gang

The Semantic Web Gang is a monthly round-table podcast bringing together a regular panel of commentators on the Semantic Web.
Some examples:
May 2009: The Semantic Web Gang discuss Wolfram Alpha and Google’s RDFa
April 2009: The Semantic Web Gang discuss vocabularies and ontologies
July 2008: The Semantic Web Gang discusses interfaces to the Semantic Web

Blog about Stats on twitter

Microblogging (like twitter) provides short messages of a person or institution.
Blog about Stats uses twitter as complementary tool, providing hints and links on what’s new, interesting, strange in the field of  disseminating statistics: This is ‘Blog Stats’ Hints‘. It’s also possible to follow the microblogs of other people and institutions.
The newest short messages are shown [...]

“Watch Out, Oracle: Google Tests Cloud-based Database”

This is quite an interesting article from Troogle, relating to Google Fusion Tables in my previous input and also trying to sort out the truth about Google´s intentions in the database field.
Troogle: Watch Out, Oracle: Google Tests Cloud-based Database
Posted in News, Publications, Web by henrydewaag on June 12, 2009

Google has released an early version of a new type of database [...]

Google Fusion Tables

Linked Data is Blooming: Why You Should Care

From ReadWriteWeb:
Written by Richard MacManus / May 18, 2009 3:15 AM
Last week we discussed how the current era of the Web is evolving. One of the concepts we noted was Linked Data, an idea whose time has come in 2009. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, gave a must-view talk at the TED Conference earlier this year [...]

Quick guide from Gapminder to the Motion Chart Gadget

Motion Chart is a free gadget in Google Spreadsheet (an online spreadsheet similar to excel). In motion chart you can convert your data-series into a Gapminder-like graph and put it on your web-page or blog. All you need is a free Google-account.
Read more including comments…

Google examples of US Official Statistics

Source:http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=144522
See public data results

If you’ve ever done research involving large datasets, you know that it can take hours to comb through databases in order to find and analyze trends. Anyone who searches for U.S. unemployment rates or population numbers on Google.com will see relevant statistics and graphs included in their search results. You can even [...]

Flowing Data: 27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial Crisis

All graphics at: http://flowingdata.com/2009/03/13/27-visualizations-and-infographics-to-understand-the-financial-crisis/
Posted by Nathan / Mar 13, 2009 to Featured, Visualization / 119 comments

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. If there’s anything good that has come out of the financial crisis it’s the slew of high-quality graphics to help us understand what’s going on. Some visualizations attempt to explain [...]

Raw Data Now! Tim Berners Lee and Hans Rosling

Tim Berners Lee joins Hans Rosling in his initiative to make data accessible for everybody. While Hans Rolsing’s starting point is getting data in order to rise awarness and understanding in social affairs Tim Berner Lee’s starting point is his engagement for a semantic web and for linking data – not only linking documents like [...]