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 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 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 August 7, 2008 by Alf Fyhrlund
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!
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Posted on September 17, 2006 by Armin Grossenbacher
In Sigma 1/2006 the article of Annegrete Wulff about user orientation of Statistics Denmark deals with a question worth to be discussed in detail. She says: “We have realised that a good search facility is crucial as many people are not confident with the way a statistical office structures information. To many users, this means [...]
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Posted on September 12, 2006 by Armin Grossenbacher
Eurostat gives an overview of best communication practices. Sigma 1/2006 – the bulletin of European Statistics – presents on 80 pages more than 30 short contributions from Eurostat and the national statistical offices of the ESS, the ECB and Statistics Canada.
The titles of the two first chapters (“Getting closer to the user“, “How to write a [...]
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