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

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

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.

 

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Full Article: 2015 Global Open Data Index shows decline in overall percentage of open datasets

New from OECD December 2015

Income InequalityThe Gap between Rich and Poor












Immigrant Students at SchoolEasing the Journey towards Integration

Ageing: Debate the Issues

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?"

New from OECD November 2015

Can Companies Really Do Well By Doing Good? The Business Case for Corporate Responsibility: OECD Insights

Healthcare improving too slowly to meet rising strain of chronic diseases

World Energy Outlook 2015

 The Economic Consequences of Climate Change

  

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
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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?

 

To see all visualizations and sources click on A Timeline for Terrorism