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
« Prior Post

This post is part of our ReadWriteStart channel, which is dedicated to profiling startups and entrepreneurs. The channel is sponsored [...]

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 platform for LINKED public data (2)

Talis announced a platform for public data (28th March 2009): Talis Connected Commons (thanks Leigh for the hint).  This is specially interesting because this platform is more than a data store, it is a semantic data store offering data in triple format (RDF) and services accompanying these triples like a SPARQL query,  support for uploading [...]

A platform for public data (1)

Some time ago Amazon web services (AWS) has opened a place for public data sets in its cloud.
‘ AWS is hosting the public data sets at no charge for the community, and like all AWS services, users pay only for the compute and storage they use for their own applications. …  AWS hopes to provide [...]

21 years ago, the Knowledge Navigator …

… and we still dream of  some visions showed in it.
In 1987 Apple published a video presenting a visionary tool which could assist us some day in our daily work and ..  in our data search: The Knowledge Navigator. Have a look at this quite amusing video.

Shortlist: Better Way- Where does my money go?

Show Us a Better Way – the contest where the UK Government wants to hear what initiative people would  build with public information has published a shortlist with 19 candidates:
Ideas where we hope to create a fully working tool
* UK Cycling
* Can I recycle it?
* Catchment Areas
* Location of Postboxes (in rural and residential areas)
* [...]

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.

Web Services Competition : Show us a better way

The competition described in blogstats’ post  ’Show us … APIs‘ closed on 30 September.
All submitted ideas are listed here.
Votes can still be registered on a special website where the actual ranking is shown.

 
A first overview made by the Guardian shows a big interest for local information:
‘Again and again, what people are asking for is better internet [...]

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 [...]

Show us … APIs

An API (application programming interface) is a set of functions … that a … service provides to support requests made by computer programs.
So instead of going to a Statistics Agency, asking for data, downloading these data and inserting them into one’s own application, it would be much easier to request the data directly from the [...]

Widget time

Widgets or gadgets or however named are little programs that can be embedded in your website or your netvibes, iGoogle, pageflakes, Facebook etc. . They take the intelligence from other sites on the web and give it to your site. Popular examples are calendars, weather forecasts, tag clouds …. or soon trendalyzer . A [...]

The TV paradigm

Of all the means to bring data to the people an “old” and wide spread technology seems to be more potent than any other: Video or the television paradigm.
A video combining dynamic data visualizations and attractive, entertaining narrative easily meets with attention and wins favour – even with the couch potato in us.
Here I fully [...]

Initiatives to bring Statistics to the People

Some say that statistics or data aren’t very sexy, that they have the image of being quite difficult, of being boring or even of being biased and not worth to be studied. But on the other hand statistics are fundamental for an evidence based decision-making…..
New technologies and private data initiatives try to to remedy the [...]

Swivel and Official Statistics: Things go on

Some days ago OECD has loaded some indicators from the OECD Factbook to Swivel. And Swivel is developing new services in order to improve data presentation.
It will be very interesting to see how swivelers will be working with these data and what we can learn from these activities.
Have a look in the people section and  [...]

Swivel and Official Statistics

I recently made a test in Swivel. I put a very small part of the international data on the Swiss Statistics Website into a graphic in Swivel and made the source available with a link to the Swiss website. Uploading the data (on divorces in several countries) was very easy. The graphic looked very simple [...]

Google buys Trendalyzer from Gapminder

Google has bought the software Trendalyzer from Gapminder Foundation (Sweden). Trendalyzer is a software product for animating statistics. Professor Hans Rosling, Karolinska Institute, is the chairman of Gapminder, and professor Bo Sundgren, Statistics Sweden and Mid Sweden University, and Ms. Gun-Britt Andersson, former Swedish ambassador to the OECD, are two members of the board. Google’s intention is to [...]

Communicating via Web 2.0 visualization

Swivel is a forum to publish data and also to visualize data. Everybody can give his information and his opinion about his favourite topic or – as Swivel says “Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data”.
Look at this example: Paper recycling

Many Eyes is a service offered by IBM that [...]

Yahoo! pipes

In July 2006 I wrote that third party websites will be able to introduce via RSS informations from NSI’s websites in their information offer. To do this they have to program their websites and must have access to a server.
Now you can create your own website in combining RSS feeds from whatever website offering this [...]