Basic Statistical Sources

"An experiment brought to you by IBM Research and the IBM Cognos software group... This site is set up to allow the entire internet community to upload data, visualize it, and talk about their discoveries with other people."

The Stanford Visualization Group "...investigates the perceptual, cognitive, and social factors involved in making sense of large data collections, and develop novel interactive systems for visual analysis and communication."

"...provides public data and forecasts from a range of international organizations and academic institutions including the World Bank, OECD, Eurostat and the University of Denver. These can be displayed as line graphs, bar graphs, cross sectional plots or on maps."

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"From simple charts to complex maps and infographics, Brian Suda's round-up of the best – and mostly free – tools has everything you need to bring your data to life."