Global public data in reasonably user-friendly form
The World Bank has made part of its World Development Indicators data set available to anyone with a computer and a reasonably fast internet connection, at no additional cost. Clearly, an improvement on the situation before.
Google, for its part, has created a new visualisation application that makes great graphics from data obtained from the WDI and other publicly available datasets.
Although probably not exactly meeting all professional standards for quantitative research, these are definitely superb teaching tools.
Google, for its part, has created a new visualisation application that makes great graphics from data obtained from the WDI and other publicly available datasets.
Although probably not exactly meeting all professional standards for quantitative research, these are definitely superb teaching tools.
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ReplyDeleteWell, I am dismayed to admit that I don't represent Google (I suspect I would be located at a much higher point in the income graphs if I were ;-)) so I can't answer this question. Perhaps somebody at Google will: Have you tried asking it at this location?
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ReplyDeleteOh, I understand now. The confusion is that the data I presented recently come from the original source some of which Google also uses: the World Bank's online data archive. It is available online, free, but a tiny bit less user friendly than the Google application. (Google is essentially a meta-site, using stuff from elsewhere. Their value added is the user-friendliness and the neat graphics.) Anyway, here is the link to the source I used: http://databank.worldbank.org .
ReplyDeleteOops, I see I forgot to include the html tag for the link in my previous comment. So, here it is: http://databank.worldbank.org.
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