19. Some examples
• International:
o Aids (PDE)
o Life expectancy (1box)
o Military expenditures (1box)
o Gender equality - representatives in parliament (PDE)
o Fastest internet (PDE)
• USA:
o Federal Government Spending
§ Outlays for statistical offices
o Energy mix (production)
o Sexually transmitted diseases
o Average house prices
28. Organize (1)
Dataset Publishing Language Metadata contents
(DSPL) 1. Dataset info (name, description, URL,
• Designed for interactive exploration etc.)
and visualization 2. Provider info (name, description, URL,
• Released under BSD, open source etc.)
license 3. Concepts
• Combines data tables (CSV) with o Dimensions (e.g., "time", "country",
"gender", "state") --> canonical
metadata (XML) concepts
• Works best with categorical, time o Metrics (e.g., "population",
series data ... ... but can represent "unemployment")
generic collections of tables too 4. Slices
5. Tables
6. Topics
Google Confidential and Proprietary
30. Organize (3)
• Bundle (zip) xml + csv files
• Upload on http://www.google.com/publicdata/admin
• --> Instant visualization!
See http://code.google.com/apis/publicdata for more details
Typically data transformation steps are in between published content and
DSPL .csv slices.