《衛報》數據博客編輯西蒙·羅杰斯(Simon?Rogers)精選了十個可以在線欣賞“迷人”數據的網站。
Information?is?Beautiful
Data?journalist?and?design?whiz?David?McCandless’?Information?is?Beautiful?blog?is?a?treasure-trove?of?cool?visualisations?and?mash-ups.?His?work?has?also?been?published?in?a?bestselling?book?of?the?same?name.
數據記者兼設計奇才大衛·麥克坎德萊斯(David?McCandless)的個人博客?Information?is?Beautiful?絕對是個寶庫,你能在這里找到各種酷斃的可視化數據和混搭應用。麥克坎德萊斯的這些工作曾被匯集在一本同名暢銷書中。
Flowing?Data
If?someone,somewhere,is?producing?a?great?data?visualisation?or?analysis,Nathan?Yau’s?blog?will?find?it.?Yau?has?an?unerring?ability?to?unearth?the?best?data?visualisations?on?the?web.?He?also?produces?graphics,and?is?a?regular?poster?to?the?Guardian?Datastore?Flickr?group.
南森·丘(Nathan?Yau)的個人博客Flowing?Data會搜集時下最新的可視化數據和各種分析數據。在挖掘網絡世界一流的可視化數據方面,丘有著無可比擬的敏銳力。此外,他也經常自己制作圖表,并且會定期在衛報數據存儲相冊小組(Guardian?Datastore?Flickr)中發布作品。
Patrick?Cain’s?Map?Blog
Canadian?Patrick?Cain?is?a‘journalist?who?makes?maps?for?the?web’.?Based?in?Toronto,Cain?takes?the?city’s?data?and?maps?it?–producing?guides?to?everything?from?crime?figures?to?World?War?I?deaths?and?single?parent?families.?A?fan?of?open?data,Cain?has?a?record?of?demanding?data?from?the?city’s?authorities?using?Freedom?of?Information?laws.
加拿大人帕特里克·凱恩(Patrick?Cain)是一位“為互聯網制作圖表的記者”。凱恩住在多倫多,他匯集了這個城市的很多數據資料如犯罪指數、一戰死亡人數和單親家庭數,并制成圖表指南。身為開源數據迷的凱恩曾利用信息自由法從市政官方那里索要相關數據。
Timetric
If?you’re?looking?for?time?series?economic?data?–and?a?nifty?way?of?creating?a?sophisticated,embeddable?graphic?–this?is?the?place?to?come.?Timetric?updates?thousands?of?datasets?every?day?and?provides?an?easy-to-use?interface?that?makes?it?very?simple?to?create?your?own.
如果你正在尋找經濟學方面的時間序列數據以及生成復雜可嵌入圖表的巧妙方法,那Timetric肯定是你必去的網站之一。Timetric每天都會對數以千計的數據集進行更新,此外,該網站還提供了一個易于使用的界面,使用戶可以輕輕松松的創建屬于自己的數據集。
OWNI
Although?a?lot?of?the?best?data?work?is?done?in?English,Paris based?OWNI?is?a?collective?of?geeks?and?data?freaks?producing?visualisations?and?apps?that?manage?to?be?imaginative?and?innovative.?The?collective’s?work?on?Wikileaks?–which?allowed?people?to?interrogate?the?data?–won?a?2010?Online?Journalism?Award?for?General?Excellence.
盡管很多優秀的數據作品都是用英語創作的,但位于巴黎的OWNI?也是怪才和數據狂人們的大本營,他們非常善于制作富于想象力和創造力的可視圖和應用程序。OWNI為維基解密開發的數據作品曾贏得了2010年在線新聞業卓越獎(2010?Online?Journalism?Award?for?General?Excellence),該數據作品讓讀者可以對數據的真實性進行追問。
Guardian?Datablog
The?Guardian?and?its?Datablog?publishes?raw?data?behind?the?news?every?day,and?encourages?readers?to?visualise?and?work?with?it.?The?site?publishes?its?data?using?Google?spreadsheets?and?Google?Fusion?Tables,?and?allows?readers?to?search?thousands?of?government?datasets?around?the?world.
《衛報》及其數據博客每天都會發布新聞背后所隱藏的數據,它鼓勵讀者對這些數據進行可視化處理和研究。數據博客利用谷歌電子表格和谷歌云計算數據庫(Google?Fusion?Tables)來發布數據,讓讀者可以搜索到世界各地數以千計的官方數據集。
Infochimps
The?big?brains?at?Infochimps?have?come?up?with?an?innovative?way?to?find,share?and?sell?formatted?data.?Both?users?and?the?site’s?own?contributors?collate?and?scrape?datasets?so?that?they’re?easily?accessible.?With?big?plans?for?expansion?and?lots?of?intelligent?developers?onboard,?it’s?definitely?one?to?watch.
Infochimps網站的大腦發明了一種革命性的方式去尋找、共享和出售格式化數據。用戶和參與編寫者不但能夠輕易獲取數據集,而且可以對其進行校勘和深入挖掘。Infochimps正計劃擴容,很多才華橫溢的數據開發者都將云集于此,總之,該網站非常值得一看。
DataMarket
This?brand?new?site?combines?an?innovative?data?search?function?with?bright?and?imaginative?visualisations.?It?also?allows?you?to?create?your?own,download?them?and?put?them?in?your?PowerPoint?presentation?or?company?report.
這個全新的數據網站將創新的數據搜索功能與富有創造性的數據可視化結合在一起。用戶可以創建并下載自己的數據集,并將它們加入到自己的幻燈片或公司報告中。
It?might?be?better?known?for?its?impact?on?the?world?of?social?media,but?LinkedIn?also?has?a?hugely?innovative?approach?to?data.?LinkedIn?has?made?collating?and?using?data?a?priority,with?lead?data?scientists?completely?integrated?into?the?commercial?operation.
LinkedIn對于社交媒體世界的影響力已經眾所周知了,但它在數據方面的創新能力也不容小覷。通過將一流的數據科學家完全融入到網站的商業運營中,LinkedIn把整理和使用數據當成了第一要務。
London?Datastore
Governments?around?the?globe?are?opening?up?their?data,from?data.gov?in?the?US,via?Australia,the?UK,New?Zealand?and?France.?One?of?the?best?and?most?useful?is?the?London?Datastore.?Created?by?the?Greater?London?Authority,?it?publishes?thousands?of?datasets?with?the?emphasis?on?useful,?live?data,?such?as?transport?and?economic?numbers.?Developers?are?using?those?figures?to?create?interesting?apps,?such?as?Matthew?Somerville’s?live?train?map?for?the?London?Underground.
從美國的data.gov到澳洲、英國、新西蘭和法國,時下的各國ZF都在對公共數據進行公開。這些ZF數據庫中,做的最出色且用處最大的當屬London?Datastore。這個由大倫敦市ZF(Greater?London?Authority)創建的數據庫發布了數以千計強調實時數據的數據集,譬如運輸和經濟方面的數據。開發者正在利用這些數據創造一系列有趣的應用程序,如馬修·薩默維爾(Matthew?Somerville)就為倫敦地鐵系統開發了一套實時鐵路地圖。
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