?Data visualizations for a changing world introduced The Google Public Data Explorer.
From the website:
he Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don’t have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.
Explore the dataStudents, journalists, policy makers and everyone else can play with the tool to create visualizations of public data, link to them, or embed them in their own webpages. Embedded charts and links can update automatically so you’re always sharing the latest available data…..
A deeply useful achievement but one that leaves a lot of hard to specify semantics on the cutting room floor.
For example:
- What subjects are being visualized? That is what would I look for additional information about if I wanted to create another visualization?
- What relationship between the subjects is being illustrated? Would help in terms of looking for more information relevant to that relationship.
- How can I specify either #1 or #2 so that I can pass that along to someone else? (Asynchronous communication or recordation of insights)
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PS: Thanks to Benjamin Bock for reminding me to cover this and the data exploration language from Google.