Another Word For It

Trawling the web for socioeconomic data? Look no further than Knoema

From the Guardian Datablog, John Burn-Murdoch writes:

A joint venture by Russian and Indian technology professionals aims to be the Youtube of data. Knoema which launched last month and is marketed by its creators as “your personal knowledge highway”, combines data-gathering with presentation to create an online bank of socioeconomic and environmental data-sets.

The website’s homepage shows a selection of the topics on which Knoema has collected data. Among the categories are broad fields such as commodities and energy, but also more specialised collections including sexual exploitation and biofuels.

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Within each subject-area you can find one or more ‘dashboards’ – simple yet comprehensive presentations of data for a given topic, with all source-material documented. Knoema also provides choropleth maps for many of the datasets where figures are given for geographical areas.

‘Commodity passports‘ are another format in which Knoema offers some of its data. These give a detailed breakdown of production, consumption, imports, exports and market prices for a diverse range of products and materials including apples, cotton and natural gas.

Resource listings following the site review, including the Guardian’s world government data gateway and other resources.