Rww. Street. NY. Google Begins to Make Public Data Searchable - ReadWriteWeb. Google just announced its first foray into making public data searchable and viewable in graph form.
The company is starting with population and unemployment data from around the US but promises to make far more data sets searchable in the future. The potential significance of making aggregate data about our world easy to visualize, cross reference and compare can't be overstated. Most of us understand the world based on stories we've put together from our own lived experience. Another way to understand things is by finding patterns drawn from everyone's experience in aggregate.