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 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 February 5, 2009 by Alf Fyhrlund
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 [...]
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Posted on December 9, 2008 by Alf Fyhrlund
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 [...]
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Posted on November 9, 2008 by Alf Fyhrlund
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, [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2008 by Alf Fyhrlund
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 [...]
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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 March 17, 2008 by Alf Fyhrlund
www.oecd.org/oecdworldforum/statknowledge
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Posted on February 9, 2008 by Armin Grossenbacher
Statistical data about population, economy, transports, criminality etc. use lots of variables to describe their object. And there is no single table that answers all the multiple dimensions of questions users are asking.
To do this there exist multidimensional tables (cubes, universes) and specialized software which allow to filter the statistical variables and to get [...]
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Posted on November 3, 2007 by Alf Fyhrlund
Posted on June 30, 2007 by Armin Grossenbacher
Hans Rosling from Gapminder has published his first statistical video named GapCast #1. It is about Health, Money and Sex in Sweden during the last 300 years. The combination of dynamic visualization techniques, historical informations and Hans Roslings rhetoric make a fascinating insight in this topic. The video illustrates the intention of Hans Rosling and [...]
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Posted on March 23, 2007 by Alf Fyhrlund
See http://www.pc-axis.scb.se
PC-Axis and PX-Web are software used in several countries for dissemination of official statistics. PC-Axis is a windows browser and PX-Web is for the Web and both are based on the PC-Axis file format. The PC-Axis file format is very meta data rich and should be a nice way to forward statistics into the Gapminder/Google/Trendalyzer. [...]
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Posted on March 22, 2007 by Armin Grossenbacher
Bruno Giussani unveils in his blog “LunchoverIP” another activity of Hans Rosling showed at the end of his TED speech (it’s a pity it’s not on the video!):
“And then… surprise. Rosling is a serious demographer but he is also (another deadly serious activity) one of the few sword-swallowers active in Sweden, and he does it [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2007 by Alf Fyhrlund
The governing board of the Swedish Statistics Association has named Professor Hans Rosling “The Swedish Statistician of the Year”. Hans Rosling is also in the news because of the acquisition of the software Trendalyzer by Google. The software works with the animation of statistics and was developed by the Gapminder Foundation.
The motivation is as follows:
“Hans [...]
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