2015: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
2015: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics
Enjoy images, maps graphs and other visual stories from the New York Times.
2015: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics
2015: The Year in Visual Stories and Graphics
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
World Bank: Visualizing the World of Business Regulations
From World Bank: The Doing Business project produces a rich dataset of objective measures of business regulations for local firms in countries around the world. We’ve written about some of the key findings - how starting a business is easier than ever before and produced a dashboard to explore that topic; but the dataset goes much further.
The 2016 edition of the report covers 11 indicator sets or “themes” and 189 economies. These themes range from enforcing contracts and registering property to getting electricity and credit. We’ve produced the dashboard to help explore this data and let you filter across various dimensions - in general, a lower rank or smaller bar is better but hover over bars to see the details. You can click through the tips at the top of the visual for a tutorial, or just dive right in!
Visualizing the World of Business Regulations
The 2016 edition of the report covers 11 indicator sets or “themes” and 189 economies. These themes range from enforcing contracts and registering property to getting electricity and credit. We’ve produced the dashboard to help explore this data and let you filter across various dimensions - in general, a lower rank or smaller bar is better but hover over bars to see the details. You can click through the tips at the top of the visual for a tutorial, or just dive right in!
Visualizing the World of Business Regulations
2015 Global Open Data Index shows decline in overall percentage of open datasets
OPEN KNOWLEDGE INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHES GLOBAL OPEN DATA INDEX 2015, TRACKING THE STATE OF OPEN DATA WORLDWIDE
Open Knowledge International has published the Global Open Data Index 2015, showing that countries outside of Europe, the US & Canada have made some impressive gains in releasing key data. However, progress remains slow for most governments, who are still not providing key information in an accessible formats to be used, without restriction, by their citizens, civil societies, journalists and businesses.
Monday, December 14, 2015
Responsible Data Use Essay by Boston College faculty
Boston College faculty member, Sam Ransbotham , Carroll School of Management Associate Professor of Information Systems, presented an essay for the MIT Sloan Management Review on "The Ethics of Wielding an Analytical Hammer" . The piece drew comments in the Boston Globe "Sunday M.B.A.", entitled "When is too much data a bad thing?"
Thursday, December 3, 2015
New from OECD November 2015
Can Companies Really Do Well By Doing Good? The Business Case for Corporate Responsibility: OECD Insights
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) by state for 1997-2014
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released its first set of official statistics on
personal consumption expenditures (PCE) by state for 1997-2014
Full release
Full release
Visual Timeline for Terrorism
A graduate student from Standford University, Trevor Martin, creates visualizations to explore the questions:
Have incidents of terrorism been increasing over time?
Does the amount of attacks vary with the time of year?
What type of attack and what type of target are most common?
Are the terrorist groups committing attacks the same over decades long time scales?
Have incidents of terrorism been increasing over time?
Does the amount of attacks vary with the time of year?
What type of attack and what type of target are most common?
Are the terrorist groups committing attacks the same over decades long time scales?
To see all visualizations and sources click on A Timeline for Terrorism
Friday, November 13, 2015
Web Tool Helps People Visualize, Make Sense of Large Complex Datasets
Carnegie Mellon's EVA Cuts Its Teeth on U.S. Census Employment Data
"Datasets for everything from gene expression to employment demographics are growing so large and complex that automated methods sometimes seem like the only way to glean knowledge from them. But a new web-based tool being developed at Carnegie Mellon University provides the option to keep human judgment and intuition in the analytic loop."
The LEHD database is available for public exploration via EVA. Videos demonstrating how EVA can be used are available on EVA's Vimeo channel.
"Datasets for everything from gene expression to employment demographics are growing so large and complex that automated methods sometimes seem like the only way to glean knowledge from them. But a new web-based tool being developed at Carnegie Mellon University provides the option to keep human judgment and intuition in the analytic loop."
The LEHD database is available for public exploration via EVA. Videos demonstrating how EVA can be used are available on EVA's Vimeo channel.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Veterans Statistics - Veterans Day 2015 from the Census
Celebrate our Veterans
Tables are also available.
http://www2.census.gov/library/infographics/2015/comm/vets/ma-vets.pdf
Monday, November 2, 2015
New OECD October 2015
The Innovation Imperative: Contributing to Productivity, Growth and Well-Being
OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard 2015
Discussion of how governments must step up R and D in frontier technology
Climate Change Mitigation : Policies and Progress
Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates From the National Health Interview Survey, January–March 2015
This new release from the National Health Interview Survey provides some estimates that provide a look at some of the impact of the Affordable Care Act.
Friday, October 30, 2015
Data Visualizations to Explore
Several international agencies have produced some data visualization tools to explore Quality of Life progress.
The U.N. produced based using Millenium Develoment Goals database.
Visualizing Progress to a Better World
OECD created a visualization to compare different quality of life indicators by country:
How's Life?
Finally using data from the UN's refugee Agency this visualization show the flow of refugees into Europe.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Harvard Maps World Trade- Amazing interactive data visualization called the Globe of Economic Complexity
With the help of Harvard University's Center for International development you can visualize 15 trillion dollars of world trade. One dot equals 100 million dollars of exported products.
The site visualizes the economics of each country represented by the products they export. Enjoy exploring this rich resource!
Monday, August 24, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
New Mapping Tool : emPOWER Map
emPOWER Map has been launched by the Department of Health and Human Services as a tool for community leaders and emergency responders to identify Medicare patients with electricity-dependent medical devices, such as ventilators and motorized wheelchairs
who are at risk during power outages. Populations can be located by zip code. 
Monday, May 18, 2015
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
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Saturday, January 17, 2015
How Nonemployed Americans Spend Their Weekdays: Men vs. Women By JOSH KATZ JAN. 6, 2015
Interesting interactive data visualization from New York Times:
http://tinyurl.com/q9tbhnj
http://tinyurl.com/q9tbhnj
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Roper Article: Ambivalent Attitudes: The Public and Opinion Polls
Based on a new poll, Roper shares what the public thinks of Opinion Polls:
Ambivalent Attitudes: The Public and Opinion Polls
By Kathleen Weldon, Research Manager
Posted: December 22, 2014
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