Google, on the official Google blog, has announced new data searching capabilities. The data comes from multiple sources including the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Division. From the blog post:
The data we’re including in this first launch represents just a small fraction of all the interesting public data available on the web. There are statistics for prices of cookies, CO2 emissions, asthma frequency, high school graduation rates, bakers’ salaries, number of wildfires, and the list goes on. Reliable information about these kinds of things exists thanks to the hard work of data collectors gathering countless survey forms, and of careful statisticians estimating meaningful indicators that make hidden patterns of the world visible to the eye.
Thanks to Gavin Baker at Open Access News.
