Data Sources for Visualization
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Sometimes the most challenging aspect of creating data visualizations is finding an interesting data set that tells a story.
Sometimes Good Data is Hard to Come By | Conspire: A Mindjet Publication
O número 48 foi proposto pela EARL (Emotion Annotation and Representation Language), uma empresa de robótica que tenta entender o comportamento humano para replicá-lo em robôs e máquinas.
Um mapa com as 48 emoções que alguém pode sentir | Arquitetura de Informação
30 Places to Find Open Data on the Web | Visual.ly Blog
Finding an interesting data set and a story it tells can be the most difficult part of producing an infographic or data visualization. Data visualization is the end artifact, but it involves multiple steps – finding reliable data, getting the data in the right format, cleaning it up (an often underestimated step in the amount of time it takes!)
Big Data: A New Approach to Finding Info
A breakthrough method to graphically represent knowledge enables software developers to easily build intelligent agents such as Apple's Siri and IBM Watson. Nov 16, 2011, San Diego, CA - Artificial intelligence vendor ai-one will unveil a new approach to graphically represent knowledge at the SuperData conference in San Diego on Wednesday. The discovery, named ai-Fingerprint, is a significant breakthrough because it allows computers to understand the meaning of language much like a person.
Cartographie de l’information : gadget ou outil d’entreprise ? »
Les points de même couleur et proches représentent des individus ayant des similarités (lieu de travail, entreprise par exemple) et / ou partageant un ensemble contacts en commun. http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/network Alors que l’on parle souvent de surabondance de l’information et que l’on cherche des remèdes pour diminuer ou minimiser ce flux d’information, la cartographie peut être un premier élément de réponse.ZNasichDani.sk uncovers who are influential persons (owners, managers, statutories) standing behind companies successful in securing contracts with the state, thus helping... OpenCorporates has taken one of the most important global datasets -- companies, and government data relating to them -- and for the first time exposed it on the web in an open,...
Europe: PublicData.eu
Used to power both official and community data portals, CKAN was developed by the non-profit Open Knowledge Foundation to run the Datahub.io . It now powers more than 40 data hubs around the world, including portals for local, national and international government, such as the UK’s data.gov.uk and the European Union’s publicdata.eu .
CKAN – the Open Source Data Portal Software
Data sources
Statistical Data
Data journalism
National institutes of statistics
Government Data
OpenBook
Public Data Explorer
Rapport sur le développement humain 2011, Programme des Nations Unies pour de développement Les données utilisées pour calculer l'Indice de développement humain (IDH) et autres indices composites présentés dans le Rapport sur le développement humain ...
Data protector … the Royal Mail still owns all postcode information.
There's a wealth of data out there – why not let us use it? | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian
Open Data
The Millennium Development Goals Report 2011 was launched in Geneva by the Secretary-General on 7 July 2011. The report, which presents the yearly assessment of global progress towards the MDGs, shows that although significant strides have been made, reaching all the MDGs by 2015 remains challenging because progress has failed to reach the most vulnerable.
STATS - MDGs Indicators
(December 5, 2011) How do we know that media make a difference? We’ve looked at the numbers.
Media Map Shows Impact of Information | ReliefWeb
Country Geography Data
Physical geography Variables: Latitude and longitude of each country's centroid, mean elevation, mean distance to nearest ice-free coastline, mean distance to nearest ice-free coastline or sea-navigable river, distance from a country's centroid to nearest coastline, distance from a country's centroid to nearest coastline or sea-navigable river, total population, percent of population within 100km of the coastline, percent of the population within 100km of the nearest coastline or sea-navigable river, percent of land area within 100km of the coastline, percent of land area within 100km of the nearest coastline or sea-navigable river, percent of population in the geographic tropics, percent land area in the geographic tropics, and the typical population density an average person experiences, by country.Basemaps— World Imagery, World Street Map, World Topographic Map, World Shaded Relief, World Physical Map, World Terrain Base, USA Topographic Maps, and Ocean Basemap.