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来自《卫报》

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《卫报》数据博客编辑西蒙·罗杰斯（Simon Rogers）精选了十个可以在线欣赏“迷人”数据的网站。

Information is Beautiful

Data journalist and design whiz David McCandless’ Information is Beautiful blog is a treasure-trove of cool visualisations and mash-ups. His work has also been published in a bestselling book of the same name.

数据记者兼设计奇才大卫·麦克坎德莱斯（David McCandless）的个人博客 Information is Beautiful 绝对是个宝库，你能在这里找到各种酷毙的可视化数据和混搭应用。麦克坎德莱斯的这些工作曾被汇集在一本同名畅销书中。

Flowing Data

If someone， somewhere， is producing a great data visualisation or analysis， Nathan Yau’s blog will find it. Yau has an unerring ability to unearth the best data visualisations on the web. He also produces graphics， and is a regular poster to the Guardian Datastore Flickr group.

南森·丘（Nathan Yau）的个人博客Flowing Data会搜集时下最新的可视化数据和各种分析数据。在挖掘网络世界一流的可视化数据方面，丘有着无可比拟的敏锐力。此外，他也经常自己制作图表，并且会定期在卫报数据存储相册小组（Guardian Datastore Flickr）中发布作品。

Patrick Cain’s Map Blog

Canadian Patrick Cain is a ‘journalist who makes maps for the web’. Based in Toronto， Cain takes the city’s data and maps it – producing guides to everything from crime figures to World War I deaths and single parent families. A fan of open data， Cain has a record of demanding data from the city’s authorities using Freedom of Information laws.

加拿大人帕特里克·凯恩（Patrick Cain）是一位“为互联网制作图表的记者”。凯恩住在多伦多，他汇集了这个城市的很多数据资料如犯罪指数、一战死亡人数和单亲家庭数，并制成图表指南。身为开源数据迷的凯恩曾利用信息自由法从市政官方那里索要相关数据。

Timetric

If you’re looking for time series economic data – and a nifty way of creating a sophisticated， embeddable graphic – this is the place to come. Timetric updates thousands of datasets every day and provides an easy-to-use interface that makes it very simple to create your own.

如果你正在寻找经济学方面的时间序列数据以及生成复杂可嵌入图表的巧妙方法，那Timetric肯定是你必去的网站之一。Timetric每天都会对数以千计的数据集进行更新，此外，该网站还提供了一个易于使用的界面，使用户可以轻轻松松的创建属于自己的数据集。

OWNI

Although a lot of the best data work is done in English， Paris-based OWNI is a collective of geeks and data freaks producing visualisations and apps that manage to be imaginative and innovative. The collective’s work on Wikileaks – which allowed people to interrogate the data – won a 2010 Online Journalism Award for General Excellence.

尽管很多优秀的数据作品都是用英语创作的，但位于巴黎的OWNI 也是怪才和数据狂人们的大本营，他们非常善于制作富于想象力和创造力的可视图和应用程序。OWNI为维基解密开发的数据作品曾赢得了2010年在线新闻业卓越奖（2010 Online Journalism Award for General Excellence），该数据作品让读者可以对数据的真实性进行追问。

Guardian Datablog

The Guardian and its Datablog publishes raw data behind the news every day， and encourages readers to visualise and work with it. The site publishes its data using Google spreadsheets and Google Fusion Tables， and allows readers to search thousands of government datasets around the world.

《卫报》及其数据博客每天都会发布新闻背后所隐藏的数据，它鼓励读者对这些数据进行可视化处理和研究。数据博客利用谷歌电子表格和谷歌云计算数据库（Google Fusion Tables）来发布数据，让读者可以搜索到世界各地数以千计的官方数据集。

Infochimps

The big brains at Infochimps have come up with an innovative way to find， share and sell formatted data. Both users and the site’s own contributors collate and scrape datasets so that they’re easily accessible. With big plans for expansion and lots of intelligent developers onboard， it’s definitely one to watch.

Infochimps网站的大脑发明了一种革命性的方式去寻找、共享和出售格式化数据。用户和参与编写者不但能够轻易获取数据集，而且可以对其进行校勘和深入挖掘。Infochimps正计划扩容，很多才华横溢的数据开发者都将云集于此，总之，该网站非常值得一看。

DataMarket

This brand new site combines an innovative data search function with bright and imaginative visualisations. It also allows you to create your own， download them and put them in your PowerPoint presentation or company report.

这个全新的数据网站将创新的数据搜索功能与富有创造性的数据可视化结合在一起。用户可以创建并下载自己的数据集，并将它们加入到自己的幻灯片或公司报告中。

LinkedIn

It might be better known for its impact on the world of social media， but LinkedIn also has a hugely innovative approach to data. LinkedIn has made collating and using data a priority， with lead data scientists completely integrated into the commercial operation.

LinkedIn对于社交媒体世界的影响力已经众所周知了，但它在数据方面的创新能力也不容小觑。通过将一流的数据科学家完全融入到网站的商业运营中，LinkedIn把整理和使用数据当成了第一要务。

London Datastore

Governments around the globe are opening up their data， from data.gov in the US， via Australia， the UK， New Zealand and France. One of the best and most useful is the London Datastore. Created by the Greater London Authority， it publishes thousands of datasets with the emphasis on useful， live data， such as transport and economic numbers. Developers are using those figures to create interesting apps， such as Matthew Somerville’s live train map for the London Underground.

从美国的data.gov到澳洲、英国、新西兰和法国，时下的各国ZF都在对公共数据进行公开。这些ZF数据库中，做的最出色且用处最大的当属London Datastore。这个由大伦敦市ZF（Greater London Authority）创建的数据库发布了数以千计强调实时数据的数据集，譬如运输和经济方面的数据。开发者正在利用这些数据创造一系列有趣的应用程序，如马修·萨默维尔（Matthew Somerville）就为伦敦地铁系统开发了一套实时铁路地图。