Posted on September 9, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
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
Follow Space-Time Research on Twitter spacetimeresrch
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Posted on August 25, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
From Space-Time Research blog:
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2009
Open Data Initiative – Free SuperVIEW hosting of data
Space-Time Research this week launched a new program called the Open Data Initiative at the International Statistical Institute (ISI) 2009 conference in Durban.
What is the Open Data Initiative?
The Open Data Initiative is a Web 2.0 site for disseminating public data. [...]
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Posted on August 13, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
Only for participants. Login and password needed.
The conference is being organised by Statistics Canada. The organising committee may be contacted by email at imaodbc-organising@statcan.gc.ca
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Posted on August 6, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
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 [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
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 [...]
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Posted on July 14, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
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 [...]
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Posted on July 9, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
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 [...]
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Posted on July 5, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
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 [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
This is quite an interesting article from Troogle, relating to Google Fusion Tables in my previous input and also trying to sort out the truth about Google´s intentions in the database field.
Troogle: Watch Out, Oracle: Google Tests Cloud-based Database
Posted in News, Publications, Web by henrydewaag on June 12, 2009
Google has released an early version of a new type of database [...]
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Posted on June 15, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
Posted on May 18, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
From ReadWriteWeb:
Written by Richard MacManus / May 18, 2009 3:15 AM
Last week we discussed how the current era of the Web is evolving. One of the concepts we noted was Linked Data, an idea whose time has come in 2009. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, gave a must-view talk at the TED Conference earlier this year [...]
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Posted on May 1, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
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 [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
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 [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
Google Begins to Make Public Data Searchable
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 28, 2009 1:28 PM /
Google just announced its first foray into making public data searchable and viewable in graph form. The company is starting with population and unemployment data from around the US but promises to make far more data sets searchable [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2009 by Armin Grossenbacher
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 [...]
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Posted on April 17, 2009 by Armin Grossenbacher
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 [...]
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Posted on March 24, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
23/03/09 Today the OECD is proud to launch a completely updated version of OECD eXplorer – the interactive graphical tool to analyze OECD regional statistics.OECD eXplorer is a leading edge tool for exploring and analysing regional statistics, using a very interactive interface that combines maps with other visual presentations for selecting the groups of regions of [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
This is a very interesting application integrating visualisation and statistical story telling, beta version. Comments mailto:Lars.THYGESEN@oecd.org
http://vitagate.itn.liu.se/GAV/flash/v2Test/OECDeXplorer.html
See this about how you can create a story yourself.
In recent years, regional development issues have returned to the policy agenda of many OECD countries. Higher integration driven by institutional processes (e.g. European Union, World Trade Organisation) and economic trends [...]
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Posted on December 12, 2008 by Alf Fyhrlund
The Data Explorer aims at providing an easy to use interface for the extraction of statistical data from the Eurostat databases.
Please note that it is still a beta version with possibly a few remaining technical problems, the need for some more performance optimization as well as a few missing functionalities that will be added before [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
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)
* [...]
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