Posted on October 27, 2009 by Armin Grossenbacher
SDMX
SDMX (Statistical data and metadata exchange) is a widely accepted standard for communicating data in the realm of official statistics.
‘SDMX is an initiative to foster standards for the exchange of statistical information. Sponsored by BIS – ECB – EUROSTAT – IMF – OECD – UN – World Bank.’
More and more applications accept and [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2009 by Armin Grossenbacher
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 [...]
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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 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 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 25, 2009 by Armin Grossenbacher
Semantic Web and Official Statistics – an open discussion. Some incomplete remarks about how to bring statistics into the Semantic Web ( I am still learning)
Introductory note: Made for machines
Semantic Web or the Web of Data is made first and foremost for machines. ‘In the future the entire web will be one giant tightly interconnected [...]
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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 December 27, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
Here is the Figure of the (last) Week (2008 ) from Statistics Switzerland
This Flash Widget leads to a chronological overview of the SFO’s press releases, publications and new results over the last days.
See the Figure of the week on Statistics Switzerlands Homepage where the embed functionality works.
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Posted on December 23, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
Posted on November 22, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
The European Central Bank has published an interactive tool that helps analyse inflation developments. In four windows various aspects of inflation development are visualised; several options allow to change the variables and also to switch to a tabular view. Impressive!
Data source: Eurostat and the EU National Statistical Institutes. Data input follows SDMX standards.
‘The dashboard consists [...]
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Posted on October 27, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
October 27th 2008: ABS’ new interactive data tool is online.
2006 CDATA Online is an online tool which combines information on Australian society from the 2006 Census, with web graphing and mapping capability.
ABS’ new interactive tabulation tool has been developed jointly developed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Space-Time Research.
Access is free!
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Posted on September 17, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
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 [...]
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Posted on September 16, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
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 [...]
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Posted on July 31, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
In 2007 the Project ALEA of Statistics Portugal won the ISI Award in Statistical Literacy.
‘This award is given every two years in recognition of outstanding, innovative, and influential statistical literacy projects that affect a broad segment of the general public and are fruit of the cooperation of different types of institutions (national statistical office and [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2008 by Alf Fyhrlund
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
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Posted on May 27, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
In May 2008 there have been two international meetings about Dissemination of Statitics.
UNECE in Geneva:
See the documents
OECD in Stockholm: Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turning Statistics into Knowledge
See the details
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