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Johan_Wastring
Inspiring datasets anyone?
Jan 28th, 2008, 1:42pm  
Hi

I was thinking about good datasets to work and experiment with. Where do I find a nice dataset? I could use a nice tip or two about where to get interesting data. I have seen the Meteorology site and been trying to find things over at UN, but have not gotten any real nice ones...

Q: For what?
A: I don't know yet Smiley Let the data inspire for once.

Anyone has any links or ideas concerning this?

All the best
/Johan
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jkriss
Re: Inspiring datasets anyone?
Reply #1 - Jan 29th, 2008, 12:38am  
There's a nice list growing at http://del.icio.us/tag/publicdata.
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ch
Re: Inspiring datasets anyone?
Reply #2 - Jan 29th, 2008, 11:02am  
this is something i'm also really interested in

something from nasa maybe?
http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/datapool/

or europe/climate:
http://eca.knmi.nl/dailydata/index.php

for real time data, you could try http://www.haque.co.uk/environmentxml/live/
there's a processing library to access the data too
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Johan_Wastring
Re: Inspiring datasets anyone?
Reply #3 - Jan 29th, 2008, 11:21am  
Very nice! Big thanks.
What is the library to access the "live" data?
The standard "xml" perhaps? Or how do I get the working library?
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ch
Re: Inspiring datasets anyone?
Reply #4 - Jan 29th, 2008, 12:42pm  
you mean for environmentxml?
there's a link off the info page here:
http://haque.co.uk/environmentxml/live/library.php
but looks like the documentation is out of date.
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Johan_Wastring
Re: Inspiring datasets anyone?
Reply #5 - Jan 29th, 2008, 12:49pm  
Thanks alot!
I'll give it a try.
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extrapixel
Re: Inspiring datasets anyone?
Reply #6 - Jan 29th, 2008, 2:32pm  
stumbled upon http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app lately. looks promising, too.
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jkriss
Re: Inspiring datasets anyone?
Reply #7 - Jan 29th, 2008, 3:21pm  
Hey, that's me Wink

By day, I work in Martin Wattenberg's Visual Communication Lab -- we built Many Eyes.

I hope you find it useful.  Either way, we're open to feedback, especially from this community.
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Johan_Wastring
Re: Inspiring datasets anyone?
Reply #8 - Jan 29th, 2008, 3:24pm  
Nice place.
Especially to do instant visualisations with chosen data sets.
Just did a Tree Map on Disney Characters.
Now, I never thought I would do that when I woke up this morning Smiley
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Johan_Wastring
Re: Inspiring datasets anyone?
Reply #9 - Jan 30th, 2008, 9:54pm  
Also. Ben Fry gives good leads to follow in his new book (I just got it today) "Visualizing data". In an excellent, easy-to follow way as usual. Big thanks to Ben. Again. Smiley
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