Wednesday, February 16, 2011

GOOGLE UNVEILS ITS PUBLIC DATA EXPLORER
















The explosion of data has created important new roles for mapping tools, data journalism and data science. Today, Google made it possible for the public to visualize data in the Google Public Data Explorer.


Uploading a dataset is straightforward. Once the data sets have been uploaded, users can easily link to them or embed them. For instance, embedded below is a data visualization of unemployment rates in the continental United States. Click play to watch it change over time, with the expected alarming growth over the past three years. RADAR



No comments:

Post a Comment

ShareThis

Become A Fan

Tweet