Open Data Study Substantial social and economic gains can be made from opening government data to the public. The combination of geographic, budget, demographic, services, education, and other data, publicly available in an open format on the web, promises to improve services as well as create future economic growth. This approach has been recently pioneered by governments in the United States and the United Kingdom (with the launch of two web portals, www.data.gov and www.data.gov.uk respectively) inspired in part by applications developed by grassroots civil society organizations ranging from bicycle accidents maps to sites breaking down how and where tax money is spent. This research, commissioned by a consortium of funders and NGOs (including the Information Program) under the umbrella of the Transparency and Accountability Initiative, seeks to explore the feasibility of applying this approach to open data in relevant middle income and developing countries.
Creating Animated Bubble Charts in D3 - Jim Vallandingham Update: I moved the code to its own github repo - to make it easier to consume and maintain. Update #2 I’ve rewritten this tutorial in straight JavaScript. So if you aren’t that in to CoffeeScript, check the new one out! Recently, the New York Times featured a bubble chart of the proposed budget for 2013 by Shan Carter . As FlowingData commenters point out , the use of bubbles may or may not be the best way to display this dataset. In this post, we attempt to tease out some of the details of how this graphic works. #Simple Animated Bubble Chart In order to better understand the budget visualization, I’ve created a similar bubble chart that displays information about what education-based donations the Gates Foundation has made. You can see the full visualization here And the visualization code is on github **Warning Coffeescript** The example is written in [CoffeeScript]( as I find it much easier to read and write than javascript. #D3’s Force Layout #nodes #gravity #alpha
News and Analysis | Diastole | Wealth Management Another week of mixed economic news did not deter equity markets from climbing. The Standard & Poor’s 500 finished last week at a record high of 1859, the Dow Jones Av-erage closed at 16,321, and the Nasdaq Composite ended at 4308. Contrary to expectations that interest rates might rise sharply as the Fed pulled back from its bond buying program, the ten-year Treasury finished the week with a yield of 2.65% Crude oil was up to 102.59, and gold is staging a comeback after a disappoint-ing 2013 – closing at 1328.20. Consumer confidence was up in January, but GDP growth was revised downward to 2.4% for the fourth quarter of 2013. The Treasury Department reported that the Federal budget deficit for 2013 dropped to $680 billion from about $1.1 trillion in 2012. In January, orders for durable goods (excluding transportation) unexpectedly rose 1.1% after falling 1.9% in December. A Bitcoin crisis is developing as Mt. Delta has announced a revamping of its rewards program.
European PSI Scoreboard : un outil de comparaison des pays européens en matière d'open data L'ePSI Platform a mis à la disposition des internautes l'ePSI Scoreboard, graphe interactif permettant de comparer l'avancement des pays membres de l'Union européenne en matière d'ouverture des données publiques. L'ePSI Platform a mis au point l'ePSI Scoreboard, un outil de benchmark des pays européens sur l'ouverture de leurs données publiques. Encore à l'état de Bêta, l'ePSI Scoreboard est complet depuis le 13 mars dernier, avec l'ajout des données de l'Autriche, de la République Tchèque et du Royaume-Uni. Le principe est simple : noté sur un score global de 700, chaque Etat se voit attribuer un certain nombre de points selon qu'ils remplissent tel ou tel critère favorisant l'open data. Sept catégories sont distinguées : l'application de la directive PSI de 2003, la pratique de la réutilisation, les formats, la tarification, la présence ou non d'accords d'exclusivité, les données publiques locales et enfin les évènements et activités dédiés à l'open data. Source : epsiplatform
New Eurostat website - Eurostat 15 December 2014 The website has been subject to a complete design overhaul to make it more attractive and easier to use, although the overall structure of the website will remain the same. Furthermore, the technological infrastructure supporting the website has been replaced. The data extraction and visualization tools will not change and keep the same functionality. What will change for you: URL changes - please update your bookmarks accordingly- The root URL will change The bulk download URL will change In this Excel file you can find a mapping of the links of the sections between the old and the new website. If you have any questions, please address them to our user support via the "Help" page.
society & values Create with Fusion Tables - Fusion Tables Help Create with Fusion Tables These tutorials step you through using Fusion Tables’ features to accomplish neat things with your data. See what others have done in the Example Gallery. Basic tutorials Get started using Fusion Tables: Create a map Turn a table of locations into a map. Extending your knowledge Gathering data Create: Collaborative data gathering Give everyone their own table to update, while keeping the eagle-eye view on all of it. Maps Make an intensity map with custom boundaries Display polygons in different colors according to values in your data. Publishing / Embedding Embed visualizations in Google Sites Work around the JavaScript restrictions in Google Sites Merge tricks Use merge to apply map styles by category Want a different icon or color for the map? Working with other tools Use Overlays in Google MapMaker Host your location data in Google Fusion Tables to help while editing Google MapMaker. Search Clear search Close search Google apps Main menu
LEGO SERIOUS PLAY - BUILD YOUR WAY TO BETTER BUSINESS PublicData.eu - Europe's Public Data Aleph - Databases Insert paragraph here... Aleph is a tool, built by Friedrich Lindenberg during his ICFJ Knight Fellowship, for indexing large amounts of both text (PDF, Word, HTML) and tabular (CSV, XLS, SQL) data for easy browsing and search. It is built with investigative reporting as a primary use case, and it allows cross-referencing mentions of well-known people and companies against watch lists, which are built from prior research or public data sets. The tool was first developed for ANCIR, as part of Grano, a reporting tool for investigating the connections between public and private officials. Following his ICFJ Knight Fellowship, Lindenberg used Aleph to power a data search feature for OCCRP's Investigative Dashboard. The OpenOil platform also leverages Aleph to search through more than 1 million corporate filings related to the oil, gas and mining industries. For more: