{"id":1000,"date":"2011-11-27T06:49:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T11:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2011-11-27T06:49:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T11:49:42","slug":"google-data-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Google Data Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has opened up its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/publicdata\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Public Data Explorer<\/a> which allows the user to\u00a0generate\u00a0visual\u00a0displays of public data. It is great tool for merging of data analysis, visual literacy and infographics. \u00a0Google links to public data sets that you can use but you can also create your own data sets &#8211; though you need some skill and understanding of \u00a0Data Publishing Language. Using the data bases Google already links to I had fun playing with the\u00a0different\u00a0way the data can be shown. \u00a0This can lead to a good\u00a0discussion\u00a0on how the visualization of data can effect how one interprets the data. \u00a0Same numbers but different look gives the data a\u00a0different\u00a0feel.<\/p>\n<p>Great place for a student of\u00a0statistics,\u00a0economics, and the social sciences to\u00a0explore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has opened up its Public Data Explorer which allows the user to\u00a0generate\u00a0visual\u00a0displays of public data. It is great tool for merging of data analysis, visual literacy and infographics. \u00a0Google links to public data sets that you can use but you can also create your own data sets &#8211; though you need some skill and understanding of \u00a0Data Publishing Language. Using the data bases Google already links to I had fun playing with the\u00a0different\u00a0way the data can be shown. \u00a0This&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=1000\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1001,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}