Searchable World Government Data
Governments around the globe are opening up their data vaults – allowing people to check out the numbers for themselves. Now The Guardian has created one single interface to rule them all. Read more
USA and China Leading in Carbon Emissions
Simon Rogers from the Guardian Data Blog takes a look at the latest (2007) figures about carbon emissions per country. China seems to take over the lead followed by the USA. Read more
Google: Zeitgeist 2009
The year 2009 comes to an end and a lot, really a lot of queries have been gone through the google search box. The kind folks at Google take a look back at the happenings throughout this year. They do this as anyone would expect them to: collecting data! Read more
Infochimps let’s users share their data
Infochimps.org is an online repository for raw data that's been around for more than one year now. At DEMOfall 09 they made the announcement that they extended the website's functionality. Infochimps.org now let's users share and even sell their own datasets. Read more
The Federal IT Dashboard
The IT Dashboard is a new website enabling federal agencies and the general public to view details of federal information technology investments. Read more
Socrata – A Social Network For Data
Please welcome new player in the open data game: Socrata – a social network for data. Socrata provides a platform to publish open datasets, let's users view, download, share, comment or rate the datasets and opens up a space to connect with fellow data enthusiasts. Read more
US Government data on Data.gov
Data.gov aims to provide public access to the high quality datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. The datasets are available in various formats from feeds to XML or TXT files. A solid search engine makes the datasets searchable and filterable based on keywords, categories formats or agencies. Read more
Open Government Data Initiative
Microsoft recently released the Open Government Data Initiative website. The main objective of the OGDI is to publish and use a wide variety of public data from government agencies. OGDI is also a free, open source ‘starter kit’ with code that can be used to publish data on the Internet in a Web-friendly format with easy-to-use, open API's. Read more
New API for financial data
The World Bank has recently released their first API. The original description of the data gives a good overview: The World Bank API offers developers information contained in the most popular World Bank databases. From projects to data and photos, you can access information by country, by type or by topic. Read more
Version 1.1 of the “swine flu” data feed
We’ve worked some more on the data feed for the records of swine flu cases. The data is now more granular with seperate items for suspected cases, lab confirmed cases, withdrawn cases and total deaths by country. The feed url is: http://pipes.yahoo.com/wiederkehr/extendedswinefluThe source can be cloned at Yahoo Pipes Read more
Tracking swine flu (for yourself)
The NY Times Interactive team has put together an interactive visualization displaying the spread of the swine flu virus. The applet is a static map with interactive markers showing the amount of confirmed cases. The Guardian has created a similar application but their version shows the spread in relation to the past dates which helps to understand correlations and directions of the spreading. Read more
Weather APIs galore
John Musser from ProgrammableWeb.com has put together a superb list of APIs that allow a developer or programming-savvy designer to retrieve weather data and use it in his visualization projects. Of course the scope isn't limited on visualization but if your anything like me you already got some ideas on how to mash-up the available data to display correlations between weather information and other data. Read more
Datasets
Most visualizations are dedicated to make sense of the underlying data. Therefore we document data sources ranging from APIs to publicly available datasets.
