The new push Google search public data and graphics

April 29 morning news, according to foreign media reports, Google Tuesday launched the public data search and charting service, user-friendly search and comparative public data.

Google said the introduction of new services contains only a small part of the public data, the future will continue to improve. Even so, current data have been covered in food prices, carbon dioxide emissions, asthma outbreak frequency, high school graduation rates, wages and fire occurrence, and many other industry data.

For example, through the service, users can clearly see that the Internet bubble burst in 2000, the Santa Clara (Santa Clara) County's unemployment rate was as high as 9.1%. But in recent months, soared to 9.9%.

In addition, users can also unemployment rate in Santa Clara, were compared with the national unemployment rate.

Visit Google.com, type "unemployment" or "population", can also view the recent unemployment situation in the states counties and future trends.

Google said that two years ago, after the acquisition Trendalyzer has been considering launching a new service-related, while the introduction of public data services, search and chart only the first step to that direction.

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Interesting move

I read the same news, it will be interesting to see how this project progresses. I started playing around with unemployment in Europe, it is a useful tool with its visual graphs but with very limited options for analysis, you can see the value and potential it has but for research purposes it still has a long way to go.

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Open Data Initaitives

Its great to see other initiatives on open data in addition to linked data. You've also got Socrata (US) and FlexReports.com (UK) making moves in the open data arena. This is a good thing as the more available open data is the greater possibilities for linked data. As Tim Berners-Lee said in his TED presentation 'Raw Data Now'.

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