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. Ondrej Florian, ai-one's VP of Core Technology invented ai-Fingerprints as a way to find information by comparing the differences, similarities and intersections of information on multiple websites. "The big idea is that we use artificial intelligence to identify clusters and show how each cluster relates to another," said Florian. The ai-Fingerprint is the collection of all the keywords and their associations identified by ai-one's Topic-Mapper tool.
Datasets on Datavisualization Wikileaks US Embassy Cables 29 Nov 2010 Datasets Infographic, Politics Wikileaks began on Sunday November 28th publishing 251,287 leaked United States embassy cables, the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain. Here's how media outlets strive to make the data more accessible than its original form. Read more New Twitter Data from Infochimps 28 Apr 2010 Datasets Internet, Twitter Infochimps, the open marketplace for data, just released their updated Twitter Census dataset with over 1.6Billion Tweets. Searchable World Government Data 25 Jan 2010 Datasets Government, Politics Governments around the globe are opening up their data vaults – allowing people to check out the numbers for themselves. USA and China Leading in Carbon Emissions 09 Dec 2009 Datasets, Showcases BubbleChart, Environmental, Politics Simon Rogers from the Guardian Data Blog takes a look at the latest (2007) figures about carbon emissions per country. Google: Zeitgeist 2009
Media Map Shows Impact of Information (December 5, 2011) How do we know that media make a difference? We’ve looked at the numbers. The Media Map Project, a multi-faceted research collaboration between Internews and The World Bank Institute, has made 25 data sets which collectively touch on every country in the world and up to 30 years' worth of information available to the public for download and analysis. Visualizations on the site allow viewers to interact with and test the data in different ways. Correlation between economic performance (GDP) and freedom of expression / freedom of the press For example: Map the Numbers shows country-by-country scores for indices like the World Press Freedom Index, number of Internet Users per 100 people, and the Voice and Accountability Index. Additionally, all the data featured on the site is available for free download. "We're thrilled to be able to offer this data to the public," said Tara Susman-Peña, Director of Research for the Media Map Project at Internews.
Data Wrangler UPDATE: The Stanford/Berkeley Wrangler research project is complete, and the software is no longer actively supported. Instead, we have started a commercial venture, Trifacta. For the most recent version of the tool, see the free Trifacta Wrangler. Why wrangle? 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. 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. Sans résoudre le fond du problème – s’il en est vraiment un – la cartographie de l’information dispose de plusieurs atouts face à des stocks et des flux d’information qui sont de plus en plus importants. Tout d’abord, la cartographie de l’information structure l’information. Mais l’on pourrait dire que sur le fond, ces atouts sont plus liés à du calcul statistique (un des exemples est le text mining pour identifier les thèmes et termes saillants permettant de construire des cluster) ou à l’exploitation des méta données des objets observés, plus qu’à la cartographie elle-même.
Setting Data Free With Gapminder Last month Hans Rosling, the Swedish global health professor, statician and sword swallower released a desktop version of Gapminder World, his mesmerizing data visualization tool. Named one of Foreign Policy's top 100 global thinkers in 2009, the information design visionary co-founded Gapminder.org with his son and daughter-in-law aiming to make the world's most important trends accessible and digestible to global leaders, policy makers and the general public. The software they developed, Trendalyzer, (acquired by Google in 2007) translates static numbers into dynamic, interactive bubbles moving through time. The desktop version of Gapminder, which is still in beta, allows you to create and present graphs without an Internet connection. Emily Cunningham is a research intern at ReadWriteWeb and a design and user experience intern at OpenMRS.org. What is Awesome Many of same things that make the Web-based version of Gapminder a great tool applies to the desktop version: What Needs Work
Online Data - ESRI ArcGIS Online Map Services Use these map services to create web maps in ArcGIS Online, or access them directly from ArcGIS for Desktop and ArcGIS for Server. Developers can access them through ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs to build web applications. Basemaps— World Imagery, World Street Map, World Topographic Map, World Shaded Relief, World Physical Map, World Terrain Base, USA Topographic Maps, Ocean Basemap, Light Gray Canvas Map, and National Geographic World Map. ArcGIS Online Image Services Dynamic image services based on Global Land Survey (GLS) datasets created by the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) using Landsat images. Geographic Data Portals Geo.Data.Gov is part of the E·Gov initiative providing access to geospatial data and information. Downloadable Data Download in shapefile format for an area of interest. Note: The following data is no longer available:
New York Times - Linked Open Data Public Data Explorer Eurostat, Indicateurs démographiques Eurostat Indicateurs démographiques annuels. Ce jeu de données a été préparé par Google à partir de données téléchargées depuis le site d'Eurostat. Chômage en Europe (données mensuelles) données sur le chômage harmonisé pour les pays européens. Salaire minimum en Europe Salaire mensuel brut minimum en euros ou parités de pouvoir d'achat, données semi-annuelles. Dette publique en Europe Statistiques sur les finances publiques des pays européens. Transport routier en Europe Statistiques du transport routier pour les pays européens.
Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools STATS - MDGs Indicators Europe: PublicData.eu UK Open Data Institute (Silicon Roundabout) Posted by Information Age on 28 November 2011 Share article 0googleplus Short of time? Print this pageEmail article The government will announce a number of open data initiatives tomorrow, including a new Open Data Institute near 'Silicon Roundabout'. The Open Data Institute will "innovate, exploit and research open data opportunities with business and academia", chancellor George Osborne will announce tomorrow. The institute will be directed by leading open data academics Professor Nigel Shadbolt and web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The scheme recalls the Institute for Web Science, an academic research centre proposed by former prime minister Gordon Brown in March 2010, which was also due to be run by Shadbolt and Berners-Lee. "We want to build on the outstanding work Sir Tim and Nigel Shadbolt have put in to 'making public data public'," said Brown at the time. However, the current government scrapped the £30 million plan in May 2010, saying it was a "low priority".
UK government announces open data initiative