Exploring and Visualizing Data Sets
Big data and how it can be used is one of the topics that my ninth grade students are exploring this month. To that end, this week I introduced them to Google’s Public Data Explorer and Google’s Dataset Search tools. Public Data Explorer is a tool that has been around for more than a decade […]
How to Use Google’s Dataset Search Tool
Yesterday, I wrote an overview of Google’s relatively new Dataset Search tool. It is a tool that is designed to help users locate publicly available datasets. As I explain in the following video, datasets aren’t limited to CSV or Excel files. Through the Dataset Search tool you will find datasets in the forms of Google […]
Knoema – Huge Collections of Data Maps and Charts
Knoema is a service that offers a huge collection of data sets and maps for public use. Knoema offers data maps and charts for almost every country in the world. There are dozens of data categories to pick from. Some of the data categories that you will find include GPD Per Capita, Government Debt, Migration, Housing, […]