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 [...]

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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Timetric Makes Web Data Useful with Time Series Analysis

Timetric Makes Web Data Useful with Time Series Analysis (from ReadWriteSTART)
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

How Twitter can make history by Clay Shirky

About this talk
While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics.
About Clay Shirky
Shirky, a prescient voice on the Internet’s effects, argues [...]

Google Fusion Tables

QlikTech Wins Prestigious Audemars Piguet “Changing Times” Award

Swiss watchmaker recognizes QlikTech as a “world leader in new generation Business Intelligence applications”

Gland, Switzerland – November 20, 2008 – QlikTech, the world’s fastest-growing Business Intelligence (BI) software company, today announced that it has won the Audemars Piguet “Changing Times Award.” CEO Lars Björk accepted the prize today in Gland, Switzerland. “Changing Times” is granted by [...]

Political Streams

With ‘Political Streams‘ Microsoft has published a new service which collects information contained in blogs, news sites and other social media. It is collaborating with the Freebase (see the corresponding post from 2007) Database when displaying informations about people and places.

The Web: My genie in the bottle.

A panel with representatives from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft talking about the future of the Web. Moderated by Nova Spivack. Worth to have a look at !
Panelists

Howard Bloom, Author, The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.
Jon Udell, Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
Prabhakar Raghavan, PhD, Head [...]

Widget ahoy!

Statistics Switzerland has introduced a widget on its homepage: The Figure of the Week.
This small Flash graphic is linked to more detailed information in the agency’s website.

It’s possible to copy the code and to introduce (embed) it in another webpage, blog etc. The links still leads to Statistics Switzerland’s detailed information.
Every week the widget will [...]

The Istanbul Declaration

On the World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy in Istanbul (June 2007) the Istanbul Declaration has been adopted by the representatives of the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the United Nations, the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank.
This declaration creates a dynamic [...]