Analytics Team

Boing Boing explains how Google is making it easier to get your data off the Google system an on to your own or to a competitor.

San Francisco follows the federal government by allowing access to some of its data sets. DataSF.org is a clearinghouse of datasets available from the City & County of San Francisco. Here’s the Techcrunch article written by Mayor Gavin Newsom with all the details.

Socrata.com is a new site that allows users to share public data sets and build a community around them.

Today marks the official launch of Data.Gov, a website designed to share government information (economics, healthcare, environment, etc.) with citizens.
Here’s the official announcement from the White House Blog.

Cloudera founder, Jeff Hammerbacher, has a new data book available – Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

If you aren’t familiar with Kiva.org, they run the world’s first person-to-person micro lending website allowing one person to “loan” a few dollars to entrepreneurs on the other side of the world who really needs it.
A new site, Kivadata.org, that says it is not affiliated with Kiva makes a lot of the data from Kiva [...]

If you’ve ever wanted an easy way to track and measure aspects of your own personal life, Daytum might be just the thing for you. A few of their suggested uses are:

creating a personal dashboard
keeping tabulations for an event
tracking sports scores
as a corporate tool

Google has brought its search and visualization power to some public data. Check out the Google Blog for more info. For example, if you search for “unemployment rate San Francisco” the first search result will be for this chart. The first data sets available are from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and [...]

Here’s an article about how data visualization is helping reporters find stories buried deep within the data.

The United Nations provides access to data from 22 countries including the United States (UNdata). Check out the visualizations Flowing Data has created for mortality, population, birth, education, energy, and environment that give us a graphical report on the state of the world.