TED AND REDDIT’S 10 QUESTIONS TO HANS ROSLING

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TED AND REDDIT’S 10 QUESTIONS TO HANS ROSLING
Posted September 11, 2009  Comments(10)

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 [...]

Datablog – News – guardian.co.uk

World carbon emissions, by country

Click on image for big picture Image: World Resources Institute
Datablog Full figures, for every country in the world
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Posted by Simon Rogers 15.15 BST

US emissions, compared to the world’s

Roll over lines to get the data. How bad are US carbon emissions? These [...]

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 [...]

“Journalism Needs Data in 21st Century”

This is an interesting summary from ReadWriteWeb about the role of data in media with several fresh innovative examples coming up 2009.  Some of them have already been presented before as posts in this blog. The conclusion is that journalism is data-driven and demands open access to raw data. Data should be transparent and not [...]

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 [...]

OECD eXplorer on the BBC News

NCVA’s OECD eXplorer on the BBC News (direct link to NEWS SITE for National Center for Visual Analytics, NCVA, at the University of Linköping, Sweden)

On July 2nd BBC News showed a 3 minutes long program demonstrating OECD eXplorer in live action to explore and visualize complex regional statistical world data – a geovisual analytics technique [...]

20 Visualizations to Understand Crime

20 Visualizations to Understand Crime
POSTED BY NATHAN / JUN 23, 2009
There’s a lot of crime data. For almost every reported crime, there’s a paper or digital record of it somewhere, which means hundreds of thousands of data points – number of thefts, break-ins, assaults, and homicides as well as where and when the incidents occurred.
With all this [...]

Google Fusion Tables

Reality Checks

From June 18th to 20th 2009 Data Designed for Decisions DD4D,  a joint IIID and OECD conference, will take place in Paris.
What’s about? 
‘Bringing personal meaning and relevance to statistics. Sharing tools to access and understand data. Finding stories in data and communicating them. Helping people understand complex issues. Graphic representation and decision-making. Visualising progress and development.’
Important and often [...]

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: Visual Representation of Tabular Information – How to Fix the Uncommunicative Table

http://flowingdata.com/2009/04/21/visual-representation-of-tabular-information-how-to-fix-the-uncommunicative-table/
POSTED BY NATHAN / APR 21, 2009 TO DATA DESIGN TIPS, NETWORK VISUALIZATION / 18 COMMENTS

This is a guest post by Martin Krzywinski who develops Circos, a GPL-licensed (free) visualization tool that can help you show relationships in data. This article is based on a longer writeup which you can find here.
Suppose that you are reading an article and the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Test TheFactLab – first statistics mashup?

Welcome to the BETA test of www.FactRanking.com. It was presented by Peter Andersson, Omnistat, at the OECD conference about turning statistics into knowledge in Stockholm recently. It might be the first example of a mashup in statistics.
Please try www.FactRanking.com and help Omnistat to make this site the best. The site for everyone thirsting for knowledge, [...]

OECD eXplorer: New tool for analysing the OECD Regional Database!

OECD eXplorer is a leading edge tool for exploring and analysing regional statistics using a very interactive interface for the presentation of the regional differences and structures of OECD member countries. It combines maps with other visual presentations, using powerful mechanisms for selecting the groups of regions of interest to the user.

Try out OECD eXplorer [...]

Business Cycle Analysis Tool from Eurostat

Interested in the up- and downswings of European and national economies? Watch the Business Cycle Clock (BCC): Eurostat’s new graphical interface for displaying in an animated fashion developments of the Principal European Economic Indicators. Click on time and choice of indicators to compare your country with EU and USA!

A challenge from Visual I|O to Trendalyzer and Google Motion Chart?

Read this interesting comment giving perspectives of visualization software development and the Google aquirement of Gapminder´s Trendalyzer. Published in Xconomy, by Wade Roush, Chief Correspondent for Xconomy, and partly quoted below:
——”Google hasn’t done much with the software, beyond making a Trendalyzer-like gadget called “MotionChart” available as part of Google Spreadsheets.
Meanwhile here’s a company in Newton, [...]

Video of OECD-Statistics Sweden Seminar 26-27 May 2008 is ready

Starting with opening speeches of Kjell Jansson, Director General of Statistics Sweden and Enrico Giovannini, Chief Statistician of OECD. Powerpoint-presentations are found at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/30/32/40293021.pdf

Statistics – a personal approach (3)

And here another pesonal comparator, just published: Salarium – Personal wages calculator from Statistics Switzerland.
After filling in a quite detailed form defining your personal profile ….

you get this information about your salary

the gross monthly salary (middle or median value)
the salary dispersion (interquartile range)
factors influencing the salary (table of salary variations by region, level [...]