Published 25. maj 2010 at 08:28 - No Comments
The SCB eXplorer is the analytical web-tool that puts together statistical methods and geographic information systems (GIS) for Swedish municipalities and counties to provide a robust workspace where the spatial nature of Swedish regional data can be fully exploited. These geovisual analytics tools are fully adapted to the Internet, so to reach a broader user community. Using the SCB Regional Database as its main source of input, the SCB eXplorer contains a wide range of economic, demographic, social...
Published 25. maj 2010 at 08:25 - No Comments
EC countries experience a growing interest in regional development. The performance of regional economies and the effectiveness of regional policy help determine a nation’s growth and shape the measure of well-being across countries. For the past years Eurostat has been studying regional disparities and regional economic growth in its member countries in order to evaluate innovative strategies for development and spread successful policies. This interest has generated new demand for sound statistical...
Published 25. maj 2010 at 08:21 - No Comments
Space-time-indicator awareness means that the temporal can be analysed and visualized across all three dimensions simultaneously. OECD Factbook eXplorer performs this task by integrating and time-linking three visual representation views: colour map, scatter plot and time graph but can also be synchronised and linked with a table lens, parallel axes plot or tabular data view. The GAV Flash toolkit architecture can handle large datasets and its integrated snapshot mechanisms, is another important...
Published 25. maj 2010 at 08:10 - No Comments
ISTAT eXplorer is an example of how a national statistics office can use eXplorer to analyse and gain more knowledge about progress made in regional statistics. Here we see 3 linked views map with overlaid pie charts and Google map, scatter plot and our special parallel axes plot for comparing profiles of selected regions of interest for several indicators and also with attached histograms for individual indicators. ISTAT eXplorer is here loaded with OECD TL3 regional data.
Published 23. maj 2010 at 06:16 - No Comments
The Elderly Dependency Rate population (ratio between population aged 65 years and population age 15-64 %) in European countries increased almost three times faster than total population between 1990 and 2007.
Prof. Mikael Jern presents the latest eXplorer technology at the Nordic statistics conference in Copenhagen. http://www.dst.dk/Sites/Nordic2010.aspx see presentation and videos at http://www.ncomva.se/presentationer/
Prof. Mikael Jern is invited speaker at ERSA conference in Jönköping 19-23rd August. http://www.ersa.org/IMG/pdf/Special_Session26text.pdf Mikael and Monica Brezzi OECD will also present their joined paper “Narrating regions: New Storytelling technique helps increasing people’s analysis and information sharing”