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Google Public Data Explorer

By Editor
Created 04/23/2010 - 12:00am
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 04/23/2010 - 12:00am
Type of Article: 
News (legacy)
Main webpage: 
Data, Geospatial & Business Services [1]
Brief Description: 
Google public data is incredible

Primary Category: Data News

GooglePublicDataExplorer.png [2]

Have you seen anything more beautiful than this lately?

Check this Google Public Data Explorer example [2]out!

- move a mouse over the dots to see country name and data labels
- move "time" scale bar from right to left (or versa)
- change a chart type by click on one of cute icons on upper left

Google is adding more public data than I thought, or more organizations are adding their data to Google? Wish we could download data directly from the site, but that's not the purpose of the website, I guess. Here [3] is a list of available data for easy analysis.

Here is the original story on the Google Public Data Explorer homepage [4]!

Posted by Chieko Maene

Source URL: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/news/2010/april/google-public-data-explorer

Links:
[1] http://www.library.northwestern.edu/data-geospatial-business-services
[2] http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&ctype=b&met_x=sp_dyn_le00_in&scale_x=lin&ind_x=false&met_y=sp_dyn_tfrt_in&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&met_s=sp_pop_totl&scale_s=lin&ind_s=false&dimp_c=country:region&ifdim=country&hl=en_US&dl=en_US
[3] http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory
[4] http://www.google.com/publicdata/home