Lots of talk on data lately. Paul Kedrosky, for example, wants to bring on the data blogs. So in that spirit I wanted to mention some cool data-related sites and APIs and put up some data of my own.
Google has its charts API. Swivel and Many Eyes are also familiar to many people who read this blog. To that list I would like to Trendrr, which I first read about on ReadWriteWeb. Haven’t quite tried it out yet, but it definitely looks very interesting. There are a lot of public datasets available, and while accessing them or finding them isn’t as easy as one would like, and the fact that more data should be openly available is always there, it is becoming increasingly available to do things with those data via APIs or services like Freebase (I think that’s where Freebase really shines as evidenced by the stuff that Pierre has been doing, and you just have to see this post/video by Toby Segaran).
In case you haven’t noticed Euan has been posting a lot of data as well. Two of my favorite data/visualization blogs are Data Mining and Information Aesthetics. It goes without saying that anything Ben Fry does will be on the shortlist as well.
Moving on to the data
Here is a graph from Trendrr (it’s simple enough)
And how about some data that I quickly looked up on Google Trends.
It’s interesting to see when Google started indexing open science
It’s also clear that 23andme has spikes in mindshare. I am pretty sure those spikes can be correlated to things like Wired articles (or maybe getting onto Digg and/or TechCrunch).
Perhaps of most interest to me is to see how much Illumina has caught up with Affymetrix
Thinking data
Lots of talk on data lately. Paul Kedrosky, for example, wants to bring on the data blogs. So in that spirit I wanted to mention some cool data-related sites and APIs and put up some data of my own.
Google has its charts API. Swivel and Many Eyes are also familiar to many people who read this blog. To that list I would like to Trendrr, which I first read about on ReadWriteWeb. Haven’t quite tried it out yet, but it definitely looks very interesting. There are a lot of public datasets available, and while accessing them or finding them isn’t as easy as one would like, and the fact that more data should be openly available is always there, it is becoming increasingly available to do things with those data via APIs or services like Freebase (I think that’s where Freebase really shines as evidenced by the stuff that Pierre has been doing, and you just have to see this post/video by Toby Segaran).
In case you haven’t noticed Euan has been posting a lot of data as well. Two of my favorite data/visualization blogs are Data Mining and Information Aesthetics. It goes without saying that anything Ben Fry does will be on the shortlist as well.
Moving on to the data
Here is a graph from Trendrr (it’s simple enough)
And how about some data that I quickly looked up on Google Trends.
It’s interesting to see when Google started indexing open science
It’s also clear that 23andme has spikes in mindshare. I am pretty sure those spikes can be correlated to things like Wired articles (or maybe getting onto Digg and/or TechCrunch).
Perhaps of most interest to me is to see how much Illumina has caught up with Affymetrix
Hopefully more data in the future.
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