Four Ways to Slice Obama’s 2013 Budget Proposal
Shan Carter's latest interactive for The New York Times offers four ways to slice Obama's 2013 federal budget proposal. Read more
FTSE 100 – A 26 Year History
Jeremy Christopher explains the history, worth, and importance of the FTSE 100 on a basic level in order to build a simple knowledge base of the index. Read more
Google Public Data Explorer
On its trail to organize the world’s information, Google has just added a new experimental product to their Lab. The Public Data Explorer makes “large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate”. It is designed to help people comprehend data and statistics through rich visualizations. Read more
Most Important Risks 2010? WEF Knows It.
The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland will take place this weekend from January 27th to 31st. To examine some of the most important topics in advance the WEF website hosts the interactive application Risks Interconnection Map 2010. The RIM 2010 is a network visualization weighting the most important global risks and their connections. 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
Interactive analysis tool for the bailout plan
Bailout Breakdown from Associated Press is an interactive applet that lets the user analyze the recipients and amounts of the $700 Billion bailout plan from the American government. 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
The influence of the recession on our beloved charts
Jorge Camoes has written a fantastic follow up post called “Sub-Prime Charts: Should Data Visualization Be Boring?” to an article from Paul Krugman for the New York Times. Krugman discusses the influence of fancy financing on business decisions and how those had to change after the great depression. Camoes goes on and translates those ideas [...] Read more
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