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Discovered: The OECD FactBook Explorer

Posted: July 3rd, 2009 | Author: Mark | Filed under: Information Spaces | Comments

Back in 2006 Hans Rosling blew the minds of TED participants as he demonstrated the power of the structured data he had collected on developing countries. In 2009 the OECD has debuted a front-end for their datasets — called the OECD FactBook Explorer. Like Rosling’s data the factbook lets you chart fertility, population growth and the like. From the stats it seems we Canadians need to get busy having kids