Thursday, November 12, 2009
Tweet[IWS] World Bank Data Now in Google Search Results [11 November 2009]
IWS Documented News Service
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Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
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World Bank Data Now in Google Search Results [11 November 2009]
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22386512~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html
* New World Bank relationship with Google makes development data more accessible and understandable
* Search results for 17 key development indicators display answers in graphic format
* New Bank Data Finder allows users to find out more about data
November 11, 2009How long do people live on average around the world? Who has more CO2 emissions: the U.S. or China? Which country consumes the most electricity per capita? A new World Bank relationship with search giant Google is bringing key development data like this directly to web users, making data easier to find, visualize, customize and share than ever before.
This initiative, with thought leaders like Google is part of an ongoing World Bank effort to make data more accessible and understandable for everyone.
"An important part of our mandate in the World Bank is to share knowledge," says Justin Lin, Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank. "This collaboration with Google helps us reach out to more people and to share that knowledge more widely."
Now, a special Google public data search feature will show numeric results for 17 World Development Indicators (WDI) reliably sourced to the World Bank, with a link to Google's public data graphing tool. Google's feature lets users see and compare country-by-country statistics and offers customized graphs with a 'link' or web address that can be easily embedded and shared in other websites.
From the Google Public Data graphing tool, users can learn more about the data on the new World Bank Data Finder, which allows them to access indicator definitions, quick facts, interactive maps, and additional World Bank related resources. All of these features can be easily exported and installed on other websites.
Data Finder also provides customizable maps and concise analysis to inspire user data comparisons and 'mash-ups' or combinations with other Bank reports. Under the population growth indicator, for example, the site generates the following statistic, "8 of the world's 9 billion people will be in the developing world by 2050." Data Finder is filled with other compelling quick facts from the Bank's extensive global databases of global knowledge on development.
Complete list of World Bank indicators currently available in Google search and Data Finder:
CO2 emissions
Electric power consumption
Energy use
Exports of goods and services
Fertility rate
GDP, total
GDP growth
Gross National Income per capita
GNI, PPP
Imports of goods and services
Inflation, GDP deflator
Internet users
Life expectancy at birth
Military expenditure
Mortality rate
Population growth
Population, total
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This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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_______________________________
Institute for Workplace Studies----------------- Professor Samuel B. Bacharach
School of Industrial & Labor Relations-------- Director, Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell University
16 East 34th Street, 4th floor---------------------- Stuart Basefsky
New York, NY 10016 -------------------------------Director, IWS News Bureau
________________________________________________________________________
World Bank Data Now in Google Search Results [11 November 2009]
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22386512~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html
* New World Bank relationship with Google makes development data more accessible and understandable
* Search results for 17 key development indicators display answers in graphic format
* New Bank Data Finder allows users to find out more about data
November 11, 2009How long do people live on average around the world? Who has more CO2 emissions: the U.S. or China? Which country consumes the most electricity per capita? A new World Bank relationship with search giant Google is bringing key development data like this directly to web users, making data easier to find, visualize, customize and share than ever before.
This initiative, with thought leaders like Google is part of an ongoing World Bank effort to make data more accessible and understandable for everyone.
"An important part of our mandate in the World Bank is to share knowledge," says Justin Lin, Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank. "This collaboration with Google helps us reach out to more people and to share that knowledge more widely."
Now, a special Google public data search feature will show numeric results for 17 World Development Indicators (WDI) reliably sourced to the World Bank, with a link to Google's public data graphing tool. Google's feature lets users see and compare country-by-country statistics and offers customized graphs with a 'link' or web address that can be easily embedded and shared in other websites.
From the Google Public Data graphing tool, users can learn more about the data on the new World Bank Data Finder, which allows them to access indicator definitions, quick facts, interactive maps, and additional World Bank related resources. All of these features can be easily exported and installed on other websites.
Data Finder also provides customizable maps and concise analysis to inspire user data comparisons and 'mash-ups' or combinations with other Bank reports. Under the population growth indicator, for example, the site generates the following statistic, "8 of the world's 9 billion people will be in the developing world by 2050." Data Finder is filled with other compelling quick facts from the Bank's extensive global databases of global knowledge on development.
Complete list of World Bank indicators currently available in Google search and Data Finder:
CO2 emissions
Electric power consumption
Energy use
Exports of goods and services
Fertility rate
GDP, total
GDP growth
Gross National Income per capita
GNI, PPP
Imports of goods and services
Inflation, GDP deflator
Internet users
Life expectancy at birth
Military expenditure
Mortality rate
Population growth
Population, total
______________________________
This information is provided to subscribers, friends, faculty, students and alumni of the School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR). It is a service of the Institute for Workplace Studies (IWS) in New York City. Stuart Basefsky is responsible for the selection of the contents which is intended to keep researchers, companies, workers, and governments aware of the latest information related to ILR disciplines as it becomes available for the purposes of research, understanding and debate. The content does not reflect the opinions or positions of Cornell University, the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, or that of Mr. Basefsky and should not be construed as such. The service is unique in that it provides the original source documentation, via links, behind the news and research of the day. Use of the information provided is unrestricted. However, it is requested that users acknowledge that the information was found via the IWS Documented News Service.
Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Telephone: (607) 255-2703
Fax: (607) 255-9641
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
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