Tuesday, 29 March 2011

10 Best Places to See Sexy Data and more

"Every minute, 35 hours of footage is added to You Tube globally"
"Between the dawn of civilisation and 2003 we only created 5 exabytes of data. Now, we create that every 2 days. By 2020, it will increase 50 times" -Think Quarterly

Google has just come out with a new journal called "Think Quarterly". It is a publication meant for their stakeholders so it is not being written or marketed for the public.
The first edition is on data.

Included in the publication are interviews about the data deluge by Google's Director of Research, Hans Rosling, Google Chief Economist Hal Varian, Laurence Guy, CEO of Vodaphone among many more.

Ok, 10 best places to see sexy data according to Google:

http://data.london.gov.uk/
http://www.infochimps.com/datasets
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
http://flowingdata.com/
http://www.patrickcain.ca/
http://www.owni.fr/
http://www.timetric.com/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/data
http://datamarket.com/
http://www.linkedin.com/

Angela

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