Monday, December 19, 2016

The CIA Is Celebrating Its Cartography Division’s 75th Anniversary by Sharing Declassified Maps





2010s map of water allocation on Mexico. CIA
The CIA  has released a collection of declassified maps back to the 1940's. 
1960's maps of Cuba and the Soviet Union are included in the this 
open access collection.  







New ICPSR Studies December 19, 2016


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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

ICPSR Webinar: Archiving Data with ADDEP (the Archive of Data on Disability to Enable Policy and research)

New Webinar offered by ICPSR

Archiving Data with ADDEP 
(the Archive of Data on Disability to Enable Policy and research)
Join us for a webinar on Dec 01, 2016 at 1:00 PM EST.
Register now!
Archive director Amy Pienta describes the steps to successfully archive research with the Archive of Data on Disability to Enable Policy and research (ADDEP) at ICPSR. The webinar shares best practices to assist researchers in the preparation of their data for use by their own project team and the research community, reviewing the deposit form and guidelines, data access options, and viewing a brief demonstration of the resources available through the ADDEP website. 

This webinar is free and open to the public. Please share this invitation broadly.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Visualization: Most Frequently Spoken Languages of NYC


      Languages of NYC uses 2014 American Community Survey 5-year estimates to map most frequently spoken language at Home Excluding English and Spanish, by Census Tract.
You can include Spanish or all languages.

Monday, October 31, 2016

New ICPSR Studies October, 30, 2016

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Friday, October 28, 2016

New Google Trends Visualization of Searches for Migration Destinations


 Google Trends utilizes analytical tools which track search strategies to offer  a new  data visualization which maps international interest in migration to G7 countries—Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United State. The data is available for  2004 to 2016. 

Searches  for the words  “migration to”  and a country name are tracked and mapped to the top 10 countries where that search was the executed most frequently.  Compare  trends for  G7 countries currently and over time. 




Friday, October 7, 2016

New Studies from ICPSR October 2016




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New Studies from ICPSR September 2016


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Friday, September 2, 2016

IMF Open Access Data Portal and Mapping Tool


The International Monetary Fund  has released a new redesigned data portal, IMF Data,  with a rich amount of international data.

Get time series economic and financial data, key indicators and indexes by country or create a snap shop of the World Economic Outlook.