On a bit of a stats kick, I decided to go browse over the tables at Statistics Canada, and ran into a surprising amount of data that you have to pay for. The data is not particularly expensive ($3 for the tables I was looking at) and I’m sure it’s full of juicy numbers… but [...]
Canadian Stats
August 5th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Frustrations, Observations
Tags: data·for fee·statistics·StatsCan
Guardian Data Store
August 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Observations
Through Jeremy Thorpe’s excellent visualization experiments blog blprnt, I found the Guardian Data Store, a repository of Google Spreadsheets full of fascinating data. They’ve got a smattering of subjects available, from world population totals to pop music charts, and in many cases the data is broken down into subcategories of very useful fine grain and [...]