E-Citizenship and E-Population
Statisticians are working a lot on structuring realty in order to count the right things. But reality is not at …
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EU Open Data Portal. An Evaluation.
Evaluating the EU Open Data Portal ‘The Department of Library and Information Science at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) …
Statistics and Our Understanding of the World
Our understanding of the world around us is shaped by the numbers we use to measure it. Official statistics’s objective are …
Embrasser l’univers
From the New York Times: “PARIS — Google, which organizes the world’s information digitally, is linking up with a precursor …
2012. What challenges?
What challenges will bring us 2012 ? Mobile – social – open data and metadata – making data findable and attractive …
Cinema Madrid – Google, Yahoo! and Bing go Semantic Web
Search on Google for cinema or weather in a region and you will get more than a link: the weather …
The new Swiss Census Explained
Since 1850, the census has provided every 10 years important information on the structure of the population in Switzerland. In …
Attention all users of statistics!
From: Access to Statistics If you are a user of statistics, we welcome your responses to the issues brought up …
New research project on access to statistics
Stockholm University, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, is starting a new research project on Citizen-centric access to statistics. Project …
General government surplus/deficit as percentage of GDP
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Semantic Web: Google’s next step
Last year Google started crawling structured data on websites (microformats, RDFa) and using them in search results by displaying rich …
