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Posts tagged “data visualization”

The Evolution of Video Game Controllers

Date of Birth

“It is about gathering data, archiving, categorizing, scaling and visually translating data. The most important aspect of this project is ‘story-telling;’ finding connections, adopting and committing to facts and figures.”

U.S. Patent Office’s Dashboard to Efficiency

“The notoriously backlogged U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is using web-based data visualization and crowdsourcing to increase transparency.”
- Rob Tannen on Co.Design

World Data released

via Flowing Data

“In another step towards open data and all that jazz, the World Bank released World Development Indicators 2010 today, which is meant to serve as a progress report of the world.

The WDI provides a valuable statistical picture of the world and how far we’ve come in advancing development,” said Justin Yifu Lin, the World Bank’s Chief Economist and the Senior Vice President for Development Economics. “Making this comprehensive data free for all is a dream come true.

More importantly though, this comes with the launch of the freely available online database and public API to 1,000+ indicators. There used to be a big fee for this data. I can’t speak for the API, but the website is well-designed. It has profile pages for each country, links to download the indicators in Excel and XML, and hey, are those graphs implemented in HTML5? I spy <canvas> tags.”

Wattz On

Brilliant Data Visualization

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