{"id":7771,"date":"2009-03-17T01:57:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T06:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=7771"},"modified":"2011-09-22T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T17:44:10","slug":"new-source-of-data-to-play-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/17\/new-source-of-data-to-play-with\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Source of Data to Play With"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Guardian<\/em> is now making all of the data it uses in its stories available for free online.<span> <\/span>You can browse their data on subjects as wide ranging as <a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/pub?key=phNtm3LmDZEOc53MZME5dJQ\" target=\"_blank\">imports and exports of plastic bags<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/pub?key=phNtm3LmDZEOzUFQpbVB-Vg\" target=\"_blank\">reported amounts of exercise<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/datablog\/2009\/mar\/10\/popandrock\" target=\"_blank\">best selling singles of 2008<\/a> at their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/data-store\" target=\"_blank\">Data Store<\/a>.<span> <\/span>As one example, I\u2019ve pasted in <a href=\"http:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/pub?key=p5Vi_CxN5Vy0ujzvFj3drdg\" target=\"_blank\">20 government financial bail outs as a percentage of their GDP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7769\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/03\/capture10.jpg\" alt=\"capture10\" width=\"346\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/03\/capture10.jpg 346w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/03\/capture10-157x300.jpg 157w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian is now making all of the data it uses in its stories available for free online. You can browse their data on subjects as wide ranging as imports and exports of plastic bags, reported amounts of exercise, and the best selling singles of 2008 at their Data Store. As one example, I\u2019ve pasted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,260,274],"class_list":["post-7771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-international-comparisons","tag-methodsuse-of-data"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7771"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39779,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7771\/revisions\/39779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}