(This article was originally published at Blog about Stats, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)
Visual representations of statistical data are attractive – and worth to build an own website with nothing but (info)graphs and maps … and more behind it!
ONS did it:
‘The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics and is the recognised national statistical institute for the UK. Visual.ONS is a website exploring new approaches to making ONS statistics accessible and relevant to a wide public audience. The site supports the UK Statistic Authority’s publicly stated intention of “making data, statistics and analysis more accessible, engaging and easier to understand”.
The site will be a home to a variety of different content, including infographics, interactive visualisations and short analysis, exploring data from a range of ONS outputs. It is neither a replacement nor a rebuild of the current ONS website which continues to be the home of ONS’ regular outputs and statistics.’
So far the statement of ONS.
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More than pictures
Behind the graphs you can find lots of interactive tools.
A calculator to find out life expectancy is one example:
Great! And the graphs and interactive tools can be embedded into other websites.
Filed under: 01 New on the Web, 030 User orientation, 031 Data visualization, 033 Statistical literacy, 09 Stat.Office / Organization, United Kingdom Tagged: infographic, maps, visualization
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