“Depth Reporting”

From MARK SCHAVER, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, UNITED STATES,  The Courier-Journal’s computer-assisted reporting director:
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Interactive public data from Google

You can now type “unemployment rate Kentucky” or “population indiana” in the Google search box and get an interactive chart that allows you to do comparisons with other states. Says Google:

… we have been working on creating a new service that make lots [...]

Discuss graphs in groups

Swivel, well known for giving the possibility to visualize and comment data, has introduced Swivel Business some weeks ago. Swivel Business adds more of Web 2.0 and lets companies and offices visualize their data in closed user groups. Every member can comment (parts of) the graphs and get feedback from other members. To discuss with [...]

Programme ready – Joint Seminar OECD & Statistics Sweden

www.oecd.org/oecdworldforum/statknowledge

Swivel’s profile

With more experience and more data the profile of Swivel becomes more and more elaborated. In a recent presentation confronting old and new forms of data presentation this profile shows up and gives us some important hints.
Here is a condensed version of Sara Wood’s presentation. The full Swivel presentation (6.4MB) is here.
- Problems with (official) [...]

Swivel categories

Swivel is very active in adding new features and data.
So Swivel has categorized the whole content and gives better access to the expanding data. Here are the new categories:

One category is “Official Source”. Swivel is launching it’s Official Source Program to get more data from official sources. OECD, UNESCO and WHO have already [...]

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 meets Statisticians

Swivel has been in Geneva giving an “electric” talk and presenting swivel.com. We are waiting for the coming reports with great interest. Good luck!
Here is the first report.

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 [...]

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 [...]