Google Releases API for Cool Visualization of Data Mashups from Many Sources

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Written by Jolie O’Dell / December 14, 2009 6:20 PM / 5 Comments
A recently released Google Labs product called Fusion Tables allowed users to grab data from spreadsheets, text documents, PDFs and other sources and create compelling, comprehensive visualizations from a merged data set.

Google has just announced it’s releasing an API for Fusion Tables. The API integrates with Google [...]

“ICT is the lifeblood of the knowledge society” – Swedish Presidency of the European Union

Extracts of slides from Hans Roslings presentation (preceding the one from Nicklas Lundblad,  former Google European Policy Manager and now Senior Executive Vice President of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, check also the panel discussion after these two presentations):

More information about the conference and all presentations:  “ICT is the lifeblood of the knowledge society” – Swedish [...]

TED AND REDDIT’S 10 QUESTIONS TO HANS ROSLING

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TED AND REDDIT’S 10 QUESTIONS TO HANS ROSLING
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About the Interview
In a cooperation between the internet community Reddit and TED,Reddit users got to put their questions to Hans Rosling. In this video response he answers the top 10 questions with explaining [...]

Talks Hans Rosling: Asia’s rise — how and when

Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world’s dominant economic force. At TEDIndia, he graphs global economic growth since 1858 and predicts the exact date that India and China will outstrip the US. http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_asia_s_rise_how_and_when.html

In Roslings bubbling world

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fcio.idg.se%2F2.1782%2F1.271921%2Fi-roslings-bubblande-varld&sl=sv&tl=en
Click on the link above to get a Google Translate version of an article published 2009-11-20 16:20 in  CIO Sweden:

World Bank public data, now in Google search

From The Official Google Blog:

11/11/2009 11:00:00 AM

When we first launched public data on Google.com, we wanted to make statistics easier to find and to encourage debate based on facts rather than intuition. The day after we launched, a friend who worked at the World Bank called me, her voice filled with enthusiasm, “Did you know [...]

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 [...]

Google’s Interest in Statistics

Google’s interest in statistics is steadily growing. And this not least because Ola Rosling now works with Google and pushes visualization tools like motion chart and the public-data project.
In his presentation at the Gov 2.0 in Washington (September 2009) Ola Rosling presents theese tools: Ola Rosling, “Seeing Data as Change Over Time”

Accessing [...]

GAPMINDER NEWS

Documentary on Hans Rosling available on-line (now full version)
The TV documentary Rosling’s World is now posted on the website of the Swedish Public Service Television (SVT) website, with English subtitles.

Direct link to Video on Svt.se
Read more on Gapminder.org

The documentary, by the journalist Pär Fjällström, follows Hans Rosling preparing his lecture at the 2009 TED conference. [...]

“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 [...]

To build an ecosystem of data on the Web

Using statistical data to explain the world, telling stories with statistical data, visualizing statistical data to make these data accessible in a quick and instructive manner – all these topics are well known and belong to  long and intensive discussions and activities in many institutions of official statistics. Results can be seen on the websites [...]

Gapminder on the Diversity of Africa

Another TED video of Hans Rosling presenting data with Gapminder. This time on The Truth About HIV, in which we learn a lot about the diversity of Africa. This is where the trendalyzer shines.
And albeit the severe topic I also wanted to bring your attention to a detail of his presentation technique. Hans Rosling uses [...]

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 [...]

Google: Tell us about your organization’s public data

Tell us about your organization’s public data
Does your organization produce statistical information or other public data that you would like to make more accessible and easier to use? If so, please tell us about your organization and the data you now make publicly available or would like to make available, including details about its [...]

Best of TED: Hans Rosling – now in Wired

Published in Wired Blog Network:
Best of TED: Hans Rosling

By Kim Zetter February 03, 2009 | 5:52:12 PMCategories: TED Conference
Hans Rosling is probably the only academic who ends his PowerPoint presentation by swallowing a sword. And he does this while wearing a muscle-T bedazzled with lightning bolts made from shiny, gold sequins.
Rosling is probably also the [...]

Gaps within China, India, EU and US

Compare progress of states and provinces!

Google Analytics and Motion Chart for web traffic analysis

Have a look into the Google Analytics Blog and check examples of the step-wise analysis with pictures, video and many valuable links. Is this the optimal use of Gapminder Trendalyzer´s “baby-on-line” Google Motion Chart?
In addition some entertainment below from the combined Google Analytics and Motion Chart development teams. However, first check the method for the web traffic analysis [...]

OECD Factbook visualized with Gapminder

Staffan Landin’s comment on OECD Factbook is worth to be upgraded to a special post!  In fact all the data from this pocket book have been integrated into Gapminder Graphs Community and are now visualized in trendalyzer style.  A huge work as all the tables had to bee uploaded to Google spreadsheets; it would be [...]

How to make statistics more accessible

Disseminating statistics to the public is the one side, making statistics accessible the other one. Even if huge databases are actually free and many statistical websites offered to the public there remain many obstacles to get the data to the (right) people.
Issue and agenda setting is one point, metadata another topic in this context. And [...]

Wired: Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data

The following is an extract from Wired Magazine Blog. It may show some light on plans from Google regarding statistical data storage and visualisation of interest for the statistical community and official statistics:

By Alexis Madrigal January 18, 2008 | 2:23:21 PMCategories: Dataset, Research

Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon [...]