Google public data explorer

The "flagship" data visualization seems to be the one Hans Rosling [1] is famous for, and that Google acquired from Gap Minder. I think this is just the tip of the iceberg for interactive data visualization - something made possible by personal computers, but certainly won't be the last we'll see. It's a great first example of our technology being used not as a "better" version of what came before, but a step into what was impossible on the former medium (paper).<p>Two interesting related questions: (1) what is possible by combining these with a multitouch interface? (2) aside from "drag this slider back and forth", what kind of interaction would be useful?<p>1. <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...</a>

This is (/appears to be) the outcome from Google's acquisition of Swedish foundation Gap Minder -- which was some AMAZINGLY smart professors and academics who visualized UN Data. (I say 'was", they still are smart! Just that they work for Goog now!)<p>I was privileged to attend a lecture and private demo of their early software when they were an independent.<p>Great stuff.

I have the pleasure to brief on our Data Visualization software "Trend Compass".<p>TC is a new concept in viewing statistics and trends in an animated way by displaying 5 axis (X, Y, Time, Bubble size &#38; Bubble color) instead of just the traditional X and Y axis. It could be used in analysis, research, presentation etc. In the banking sector, we have Deutsche Bank New York as our client.<p>Link on Chile's Earthquake (27/02/2010):<p><a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/EarthQuakeinChile/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/EarthQuakeinChile/</a><p>This a link on weather data :<p><a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/aims/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/aims/</a><p>This is a bank link to compare Deposits, Withdrawals and numbers of Customers for different branches over time ( all in 1 Chart) :<p><a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/</a><p>Misc Examples :<p><a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/airline/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/airline/</a> <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/stockmarket1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/stockmarket1/</a> <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/tax/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/tax/</a> <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/football/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/football/</a> <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/swinefludaily/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/swinefludaily/</a> <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/flu/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/flu/</a> <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/babyboomers/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/babyboomers/</a> <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/</a> <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/advertising/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/advertising/</a><p>This is a project we did with Princeton University on US unemployment : <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/main3.swf" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/main3.swf</a><p>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 : <a href="http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/princeton.aspx?home=1" rel="nofollow">http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/princeton.aspx?home=1</a><p>Latest financial links on the Central Bank of Egypt:<p><a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/Aggregate-balance-sheet/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/Aggregate-balan...</a> <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/balance-sheet" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/balance-sheet</a> <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/banks-deposits-by-maturity/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/banks-deposits-...</a> <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/egyptian-banks/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/egyptian-banks/</a> <a href="http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/currency-by-denomination/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/currency-by-den...</a><p>I hope you could evaluate it and give me your comments. So many ideas are there.<p>You can download a trial version. It has a feature to export EXE,PPS,HTML and AVI files. The most impressive is the AVI since you can record Audio/Video for the charts you create.<p><a href="http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/FreeVersion/TrendCompassv1.2_DotNet.zip" rel="nofollow">http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/FreeVersion/TrendCompassv1....</a><p>All the best.

Really beautifully captures overall trends as well as outliers such as the following: in the first example (life expectancy / fertility) check out the path of Rwanda from about 88-97 (slowly move the slider.)

This is a fine UI, I've known about it for a long time, but it is putting the cart in front of the horse. Sure, you can browse a tiny, tiny set of data series.<p>What the world needs is a unified source of searchable, browseable, and joinable time-series data from government, industry, and NGOs. Then put the fancy front ends on. I've been trying to generate interest in this idea for seven years. I don't know why Google hasn't already done it.

If you have interest in the public datasets used there, may be you like another public data browser, UN Data (<a href="http://data.un.org/" rel="nofollow">http://data.un.org/</a>)

This is great, really glad they're moving to JS from Flash.