World Bank Data Visualization

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World Bank Data Visualization

March 9, 2010 By Wilson Center Staff

Yesterday Google and the World Bank expanded their data-sharing partnership, first initiated last fall, to include a subset of 54 World Development Indicators and enhanced visualization tools. Users can now interact with data—spanning a range of both environmental and population statistics, from forest coverage area to contraceptive prevalence—using line graphs, bar graphs, maps, and xy-plots. Each option also offers users the ability to follow the data changes over time.

An alternative to Google’s Public Data Explorer is the World Bank’s Data Visualizer. Although limiting data output to an xy-plot, the customization options go beyond those offered by the Public Data Explorer and achieve a good balance between flexibility and ease of use. Table colors and groupings are fully customizable, scales are adjustable, and the chart can be quickly printed or exported as a jpeg.

Topics: Eye On, forests, population
- http://crisismaven.wordpress.com CrisisMaven
  
  You might want to check out my Visualisation References resource list, aspiring to be the most comprehensive on the net. If you miss anything that I might be able to find for you or if you yourself want to share a resource, please leave a comment.
- http://www.blogger.com/profile/08952603795648471876 Dan Asin
  
  Thanks for the link Maven. It seems like your well on your way!
  
  As not only a visualization enthusiast but also a hobby photographer I particularly enjoyed the link to Jake Garn's photography demonstrating Fibonacci Spirals and the Rule of Thirds.
- http://www.blogger.com/profile/18007654205918556861 Epicsystems
  
  Dear Sir,
  
  I have the pleasure to brief on our Data Visualization software
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  TC is a new concept in viewing statistics and trends in an animated
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  instead of just the traditional X and Y axis. It could be used in
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  Deutsche Bank New York as our client.
  
  This a link on weather data :
  
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  This is a bank link to compare Deposits, Withdrawals and numbers of
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  Misc Examples :
  
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  This is a project we did with Princeton University on US unemployment :
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  A 3 minutes video presentation of above by Professor Alan Krueger
  Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton
  University and currently Chief Economist at the US Treasury using
  Trend Compass :
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  Latest financial links on the Central Bank of Egypt:
  
  http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/Aggregate-balance-sheet/
  http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/balance-sheet
  http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/banks-deposits-by-maturity/
  http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/egyptian-banks/
  http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/currency-by-denomination/
  
  I hope you could evaluate it and give me your comments. So many ideas
  are there.
  
  You can download a trial version. It has a feature to export
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  http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/FreeVersion/TrendCompassv1.2_DotNet.zip
  
  All the best.
  
  Epic Systems
  http://www.epicsyst.com

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