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From Andy Pols: the customer who wouldn’t deploy without a test (via Keith Braithwaite).

Sometimes when I’m looking into ways to analyze data or I want to play with an analysis tool, chart or technique I need data.

Sometimes I don’t want to use data gathered through my work and sometimes I don’t want to deal with the time suck of scrubbing data.

Here are some sources I’ve found to pull data for exploration:

NationMaster
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
Keep drilling about the site and you can get to downloadable files to save data and explore.

These thoughts and links are related but random – while I normally blog in more of a story format – these thoughts tie together only through the theme of data visualization.

Picked up on this blog re: data visualization. Nice list of tools used at different sites.
See: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_best_tools_for_visualization.php

Digg Labs’ stack tool is fun to watch. See http://labs.digg.com/stack/

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