Thanks to my colleague George Clark for the heads up about this new Google feature, Google Public Data. Google recently “launched a new search feature that makes it easy to find and compare public data” – and it really is incredibly easy, as well as powerful.
For example, if you go into Google and do a search for: unemployment rate Massachusetts -- the system goes into Google Public Data and delivers a graph showing the latest reported unemployment figures for Massachusetts. If you then click on one or more of the boxes in the list of states at screen left, the system overlays the comparative graphs of unemployment for each state selected (the data source for these graphs is the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, BTW). Pretty useful. And that’s just one application for it….
At your service,
Cheryl
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