Google Public Data Explorer provides public
data
Data ( , ) are a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted for ...
and
forecasts from a range of international organizations and academic institutions including the
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and Grant (money), grants to the governments of Least developed countries, low- and Developing country, middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development ...
,
OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; , OCDE) is an international organization, intergovernmental organization with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and international trade, wor ...
,
Eurostat
Eurostat ("European Statistical Office"; also DG ESTAT) is a department of the European Commission ( Directorate-General), located in the Kirchberg quarter of Luxembourg City, Luxembourg. Eurostat's main responsibilities are to provide statist ...
and the
University of Denver. These can be displayed as line graphs, bar graphs, cross-sectional plots or on maps. The product was launched on March 8, 2010 as an experimental visualization tool in
Google Labs.
In 2011 the Public Data Explorer was made available to everyone. The Dataset Publishing Language (DSPL) was created to be used with the platform. Once data is imported, the dataset can be visualized, embedded in external websites, and shared with others.
In May 2016, the addition of the Google Analytics Suite enabled the import of public or individual datasets and provided
no-code data visualization tools to users.
SDMX conversion
The
SDMX converter is an open source application that offers the ability to convert DSPL (Google's Dataset Publishing Language) messages to
SDMX-ML, and vice versa. The output file of a DSPL dataset is a zip file containing data (in the form of
CSV files) and metadata (as an
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding electronic document, documents in a format that is both human-readable and Machine-r ...
file). Datasets in this format can be visualized in the Google Public Data Explorer.
See also
*
Trendalyzer
References
Further reading
Eurostat data as open data: experience with Google and with the open data communityby Chris Laevaert, May 2012
Enhancing Data Discovery and Explorationby Jürgen Schwärzler, March 2011
Using the Google Public Data Explorer as a Learning Tool in the University Geography Classroomby Thomas Pingel and Devin Moeller, October 2014
External links
*
International Telecommunication Union Data ExplorerUnited Nations Human Development Reports
Public Data Explorer
Data and information visualization software
Online databases
{{Google-stub