eXplorer and Booklets for tell-a-story over the Internet

NCVA (National Center for Visual Analysis) at Linköping University develops dynamic visualization publishing – a  “statistical-story-telling” approach based on dynamic visualization “booklets” that are embedded into Web pages as HTML code. NCVA collaborates with its partners OECD, Eurostat, Statistics Denmark, Statistics Sweden and the city of Göteborg.
The software used is [...]

What’s New@OECD July 2009, revised (some extracts)

Follow OECD on Twitter! OECDtweet and on Facebook! OECD on Facebook and on Youtube! OECD on Youtube
Bookmark  the OECD Factbook 2009 – Mobile Edition on your iPhone, Blackberry or any phone, and access the 100 top OECD indicators from anywhere: Factbook 2009 – Mobile Edition
OECD Statistics Newsletter features articles migration statistics, synergies between official and [...]

Webinar 15-16 July: Seminar on Innovative Approaches to Turn Statistics into Knowledge, Washington D.C.

Instructions for joining the webinar. (See also Wikpedia.)
Program and presentations.
Invitation to the seminar.

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 [...]

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 [...]

OECD launches new OECD eXplorer: web-tool for analysing regional statistics

 

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 [...]

OECD eXplorer for regions globally and “statistical story telling” (beta version)

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 [...]

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 [...]

GeoAnalytics based on Adobe´s Flash

http://vitagate.itn.liu.se/smartdoc/html/GAV-Flex-2008-08-04/OECDApplication.html
This is a new version of GeoAnalytics (the old one was presented at the OECD/Statistics Sweden Seminar recently) which use the same type of system as Gapminder for visualization. No installation of any program except for Flash. The interaction is quite good taking in consideration the big volumes of data. There are no Help menues yet but [...]

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

OECD Factbook visualized with Gapminder

Staffan Landin’s comment on OECD Factbook is worth to be upgraded to a special post!  In fact all the data from this pocket book have been integrated into Gapminder Graphs Community and are now visualized in trendalyzer style.  A huge work as all the tables had to bee uploaded to Google spreadsheets; it would be [...]

Dissemination, knowledge and innovation

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

OECD Factbook 2008 – now “alive” and focus on productivity

The free online economic statistics in the 2008 OECD Factbook (www.sourceoecd.org/factbook) have been transformed to include animated diagrams of the key indicators which bring the data alive visually. The interactive graphs enable users to clearly observe trends in the statistics and interact with the data to perform their chosen comparisons between countries. The Factbook also [...]

Programme ready – Joint Seminar OECD & Statistics Sweden

www.oecd.org/oecdworldforum/statknowledge

Interactive Viewing of Cubes: OECD.Stat and others like PC-AXIS, Superweb …

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 [...]

The May Dissemination Events

It’s hard and hardly possible to follow all the seminars on dissemination of official statistics in May 2008.
OECD and UNECE are planning interesting events with manifold presentations. Their aim: How to present statistical informations in an attractive way to a broader public? How to use new technologies to do so? For all these May [...]

The Istanbul Declaration

On the World Forum on Statistics, Knowledge and Policy in Istanbul (June 2007) the Istanbul Declaration has been adopted by the representatives of the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the United Nations, the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank.
This declaration creates a dynamic [...]

Initiatives to bring Statistics to the People

Some say that statistics or data aren’t very sexy, that they have the image of being quite difficult, of being boring or even of being biased and not worth to be studied. But on the other hand statistics are fundamental for an evidence based decision-making…..
New technologies and private data initiatives try to to remedy the [...]

A Bridge between Statistics and Citizens

In an interview with Le Monde (July 6th 2007) Enrico Giovannini, OECD’s Chief Statistician, looks back to the Istanbul World Forum on Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies. The interview is about measuring progress, and also about the role of citizens in statistics and how citizens judge of the influence of statistics.
An extract from [...]

Second OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and Policy”

The Istanbul World Forum on Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies
begins on 27 June 2007. Over 200 speakers and more than 1000 participants from 140 countries will be there.