"New" on Google
An entry on the Gapminder blog, informed me about a new presentation of data available on Google. Well, it's new to me. Turns out the announcement was made last November. Editorial aside: For all the effort Google makes to look attractive when presenting itself and its search results, the blog reporting these added features is incredibly ugly and hard to read.You or your students can embed comparisons in presentations in such a way that they will be updated whenever new data becomes available. What a great idea. Of course, if new data negates a point you're trying to make, maybe it's not such a great idea.
[Editorial comment: If you don't know about Gapminder yet, now's the time to find out.]
World Bank public data, now in search
When we first launched public data on Google.com, we wanted to make statistics easier to find and to encourage debate based on facts rather than intuition. The day after we launched, a friend who worked at the World Bank called me, her voice filled with enthusiasm, "Did you know that the World Bank also just released an API for their data?" Excited, I checked it out, and found an amazing treasure trove of statistics for most economies in the world. After some hard work and analysis, today we're happy to announce that 17 World Development Indicators (list below*) are now conveniently available to you in Google search.
With today's update, you can quickly access more data with a broad range of queries. Search should be intuitive, so we've done the work to think through queries where public data will be most relevant to you. To see the new data, try queries like [gdp of indonesia], [life expectancy south africa], [rwanda's population growth], [energy use of iceland], [co2 emissions of iceland] and [gdp growth rate argentina]…
Clicking on [a] result will bring you to an interactive chart where you can compare the [country you're researching] with other regions around the world. We've also added a new feature to enable you to embed these charts in your own website or blog by clicking on the "Link" button in the upper right-hand corner of the chart page. You have the option to either embed the chart with static data, or you can also set the chart to update dynamically when new data becomes available...
[Here's the] complete list of World Bank indicators currently available: CO2 emissions per capita, Electricity consumption per capita, Energy use per capita, Exports as percentage of GDP, Fertility rate, GDP deflator change, GDP growth rate, GNI per capita in PPP dollars, Gross Domestic Product, Gross National Income in PPP dollars, Imports as percentage of GDP, Internet users as percentage of population, Life expectancy, Military expenditure as percentage of GDP, Mortality rate, under 5, Population, and Population growth rate.
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Labels: demographics, economics, pedagogy
posted by Ken Wedding @ 8:02 AM
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