Everyone loves a good statistic . And if you’re a policymaker, parliamentary assistant or academic, statistics - vital for evidence-based policy-making - are your bread and butter.
Over the last two years, we’ve made it easier to find, explore and understand more than 27 datasets through search and via clear, colourful visualisations using the Google Public Data Explorer . You can find and analyse over 300 data metrics provided by public institutions such as Eurostat (eg: EU inflation rates ), the OECD (labour productivity), the IMF (government debt levels ), UNECE (gender balance in parliaments ) and many others.
Yesterday, we made the Public Data Explorer even more useful by enabling you to visualise your data . If your organisation produces statistical reports on its key performance indicators, tracks financial or societal trends or conducts large-scale surveys, you can now benefit from the same sort of powerful, animated visualisations that we provide today with our existing datasets.
To make this possible, we’ve developed a new data format that makes visualisation easy, and have provided an interface for anyone to upload their datasets. Once imported, a dataset can be visualized in the Public Data Explorer, embedded in external websites, and shared with others. This does of course require some technical skills, but we’ve built upon existing open standards and a simple user interface to make things as easy as possible.
Our hope is that even more useful statistics can come to life through Public Data Explorer visualisations - and that we can help you realise the value of data in making informed, data-driven decisions.
Posted by Omar Benjelloun, Technical Lead, Google Public Data Team
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