Gapminder shows statistics in motion. Doesn’t sound too exciting? Take a look at this amazing tool and see if you don’t agree. Ok, I’m a data geek – but this will help you find your own inner data geek, I promise. This chart shows declining birth rate associated with increases in personal income for the [...]
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Google Fusion Tables
I discovered Google’s Fusion Tables tool while preparing for a workshop on Google Tools for Reference Staff at the CT Library Consortium’s Reference Roundtable meeting last week. I’m still exploring all the features! Fusion Tables is a Google Labs project that lets you work with sets of data uploaded from Google Docs spreadsheets or other [...]
It’s NOT a search engine – Wolfram Alpha – try it!
A new tool for finding data and doing calculations was released in March. I just heard about it today – several times in fact – I’m a few weeks behind on the “buzz”. Wolfram Alpha is NOT a search engine – “It’s a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own [...]
