Google just launched a new search feature to make it easy to find and compare public data.In time I believe it will become a very valueble tool for anybody that wants to find or to display facts in an easily understandable way.
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So far not very much public data is awailable and the data that is at this time concerns the USA. According to Google there are statistics for prices of cookies, CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers’ salaries, number of wildfires, and the list goes on. Reliable information about these kinds of things exists thanks to the hard work of data collectors gathering countless survey forms, and of careful statisticians estimating meaningful indicators that make hidden patterns of the world visible to the eye. All the data we’ve used in this first launch are produced and published by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Division.
This service is the fruit of Google’s acquisition of Trendalyzer two years ago. Trendalyzer was developed by Gapminder and intended to be a software that “unveils the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics”.
Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
Gapminder was founded in Stockholm by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling on February 25, 2005
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