Google launches tool for searching public data, by Tom Krazit, Relevant Results (Mar 8)
Could Google do for public-data search what it did for scholarly?
Public Data Explorer is new tool from Google Labs - "The site takes public data regarding schools, population, crime, and even names to construct charts and graphs that help illustrate trends."
There are several examples on show. International data comes from WorldBank, OECD, Eurostats. It also gets data from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Center for Disease Control, and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Google post - Statistics for a changing world: Google Public Data Explorer in Labs
Posted by Gwen at March 9, 2010 11:05 AM