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Google Launches Public Data Explorer

Ryan Coleman

Founding member and Former Chief Community Evangelist of VizThink. Now an Innovation Specialist at a major Canadian bank....

3/9/10

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Yesterday Google flipped the switch on their newest Google labs product “Google Public Data Explorer“, a tool that allows anyone to browse, compare and visualize information from a dozen or so public data sets (World Bank data, US Census Information, Eurostat etc.). While a limited in what you can do today it provides some interesting insight into what might be coming down the pipes.

Data visualizations can also be linked to, or even embedded in a webpage (as I’ve done below) and, where the data exists, the charts can even be animated to show the progression of time. There’s loads of options to explore and tinker with.

Obviously there’s probably no cure for cancer or solutions to any other wicked problems in here, but I’m certainly to see what insights or visuals emerge from letting people play with this data. Knowing Google this also won’t stay at 12 or 13 datasets for long.

We’d love to see what you come up with – please share any visualizations you create or find interesting in the comments below!

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