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| An exciting stats website? Believe it | An exciting stats website? Believe it |
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| A new online tool puts the power of information in the hands of anyone who's interested, and turns data into animation. Here, Michael Blastland, in his regular column, gives just a taste of what the site can do. | A new online tool puts the power of information in the hands of anyone who's interested, and turns data into animation. Here, Michael Blastland, in his regular column, gives just a taste of what the site can do. |
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| Michael gives a brief tour of the site | Michael gives a brief tour of the site |
| I hope my video offers just a feel of what you can find out on the new OECD Factbook eXplorer website. Just as exciting is the OECD's Regional Statistics site. | I hope my video offers just a feel of what you can find out on the new OECD Factbook eXplorer website. Just as exciting is the OECD's Regional Statistics site. |
| Readers might also like to explore the inspiration for the OECD technique, and for many other new ideas about communicating data: animated stats about international development by the Gapminder organisation. | Readers might also like to explore the inspiration for the OECD technique, and for many other new ideas about communicating data: animated stats about international development by the Gapminder organisation. |
| • Art or information? | • Art or information? |
| Go Figure promised to draw occasional attention to statistical eye candy. | Go Figure promised to draw occasional attention to statistical eye candy. |
| Here's an example, sort of, titled The Past and Future of Information. I say "sort of" because no numbers were used to create it. It is openly unscientific. | Here's an example, sort of, titled The Past and Future of Information. I say "sort of" because no numbers were used to create it. It is openly unscientific. |
| Brilliant, say some. Meaningless, say others. The fuss is partly because it reignites a row between those who think data visualisation should have some data in it, particularly if it looks as if it's a graph, and those who think it has merit if it simply captures feeling or ideas in a compelling design. | Brilliant, say some. Meaningless, say others. The fuss is partly because it reignites a row between those who think data visualisation should have some data in it, particularly if it looks as if it's a graph, and those who think it has merit if it simply captures feeling or ideas in a compelling design. |
| So the question that animates all the argument is: does this do anything useful other than look colourful? It comes from a site called Baekdal.com which describes itself as "a magazine about greatness". Tell me what you think of this and/or the video above. | |
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