Cloudera founder, Jeff Hammerbacher, has a new data book available – Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
May 02
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 available in a series of charts. Check out how many loans are given out by region, or what the average amount of the loans are, as well as tons more stats.
Apr 29
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
Apr 29
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 the Census Bureau’s Population Division.
Apr 15
Here’s an article about how data visualization is helping reporters find stories buried deep within the data.
Mar 25
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.
Mar 07
Obama just appointed Vivek Kundra to the new position of CIO of the United States. Mr. Kundra supports opening government records and has proposed the creation of data.gov to become the repository for all government collected information. Check out the NY Times article.
