《衛(wèi)報(bào)》數(shù)據(jù)博客編輯西蒙·羅杰斯（Simon?Rogers）精選了十個(gè)可以在線欣賞“迷人”數(shù)據(jù)的網(wǎng)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.
數(shù)據(jù)記者兼設(shè)計(jì)奇才大衛(wèi)·麥克坎德萊斯（David?McCandless）的個(gè)人博客?Information?is?Beautiful?絕對(duì)是個(gè)寶庫，你能在這里找到各種酷斃的可視化數(shù)據(jù)和混搭應(yīng)用。麥克坎德萊斯的這些工作曾被匯集在一本同名暢銷書中。
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）的個(gè)人博客Flowing?Data會(huì)搜集時(shí)下最新的可視化數(shù)據(jù)和各種分析數(shù)據(jù)。在挖掘網(wǎng)絡(luò)世界一流的可視化數(shù)據(jù)方面，丘有著無可比擬的敏銳力。此外，他也經(jīng)常自己制作圖表，并且會(huì)定期在衛(wèi)報(bào)數(shù)據(jù)存儲(chǔ)相冊(cè)小組（Guardian?Datastore?Flickr）中發(fā)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·凱恩（Patrick?Cain）是一位“為互聯(lián)網(wǎng)制作圖表的記者”。凱恩住在多倫多，他匯集了這個(gè)城市的很多數(shù)據(jù)資料如犯罪指數(shù)、一戰(zhàn)死亡人數(shù)和單親家庭數(shù)，并制成圖表指南。身為開源數(shù)據(jù)迷的凱恩曾利用信息自由法從市政官方那里索要相關(guān)數(shù)據(jù)。
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.
如果你正在尋找經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)方面的時(shí)間序列數(shù)據(jù)以及生成復(fù)雜可嵌入圖表的巧妙方法，那Timetric肯定是你必去的網(wǎng)站之一。Timetric每天都會(huì)對(duì)數(shù)以千計(jì)的數(shù)據(jù)集進(jìn)行更新，此外，該網(wǎng)站還提供了一個(gè)易于使用的界面，使用戶可以輕輕松松的創(chuàng)建屬于自己的數(shù)據(jù)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.
盡管很多優(yōu)秀的數(shù)據(jù)作品都是用英語創(chuàng)作的，但位于巴黎的OWNI?也是怪才和數(shù)據(jù)狂人們的大本營，他們非常善于制作富于想象力和創(chuàng)造力的可視圖和應(yīng)用程序。OWNI為維基解密開發(fā)的數(shù)據(jù)作品曾贏得了2010年在線新聞業(yè)卓越獎(jiǎng)（2010?Online?Journalism?Award?for?General?Excellence），該數(shù)據(jù)作品讓讀者可以對(duì)數(shù)據(jù)的真實(shí)性進(jìn)行追問。
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.
《衛(wèi)報(bào)》及其數(shù)據(jù)博客每天都會(huì)發(fā)布新聞背后所隱藏的數(shù)據(jù)，它鼓勵(lì)讀者對(duì)這些數(shù)據(jù)進(jìn)行可視化處理和研究。數(shù)據(jù)博客利用谷歌電子表格和谷歌云計(jì)算數(shù)據(jù)庫（Google?Fusion?Tables）來發(fā)布數(shù)據(jù)，讓讀者可以搜索到世界各地?cái)?shù)以千計(jì)的官方數(shù)據(jù)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網(wǎng)站的大腦發(fā)明了一種革命性的方式去尋找、共享和出售格式化數(shù)據(jù)。用戶和參與編寫者不但能夠輕易獲取數(shù)據(jù)集，而且可以對(duì)其進(jìn)行?？焙蜕钊胪诰颉?/span>Infochimps正計(jì)劃擴(kuò)容，很多才華橫溢的數(shù)據(jù)開發(fā)者都將云集于此，總之，該網(wǎng)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.
這個(gè)全新的數(shù)據(jù)網(wǎng)站將創(chuàng)新的數(shù)據(jù)搜索功能與富有創(chuàng)造性的數(shù)據(jù)可視化結(jié)合在一起。用戶可以創(chuàng)建并下載自己的數(shù)據(jù)集，并將它們加入到自己的幻燈片或公司報(bào)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對(duì)于社交媒體世界的影響力已經(jīng)眾所周知了，但它在數(shù)據(jù)方面的創(chuàng)新能力也不容小覷。通過將一流的數(shù)據(jù)科學(xué)家完全融入到網(wǎng)站的商業(yè)運(yùn)營中，LinkedIn把整理和使用數(shù)據(jù)當(dāng)成了第一要?jiǎng)?wù)。
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.
從美國的data.gov到澳洲、英國、新西蘭和法國，時(shí)下的各國ZF都在對(duì)公共數(shù)據(jù)進(jìn)行公開。這些ZF數(shù)據(jù)庫中，做的最出色且用處最大的當(dāng)屬London?Datastore。這個(gè)由大倫敦市ZF（Greater?London?Authority）創(chuàng)建的數(shù)據(jù)庫發(fā)布了數(shù)以千計(jì)強(qiáng)調(diào)實(shí)時(shí)數(shù)據(jù)的數(shù)據(jù)集，譬如運(yùn)輸和經(jīng)濟(jì)方面的數(shù)據(jù)。開發(fā)者正在利用這些數(shù)據(jù)創(chuàng)造一系列有趣的應(yīng)用程序，如馬修·薩默維爾（Matthew?Somerville）就為倫敦地鐵系統(tǒng)開發(fā)了一套實(shí)時(shí)鐵路地圖。
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