Open Data Initiative: a look at the past week
It's been a week since we launched the open data initiative and the feedback we've been receiving is truly amazing. Here's a tag cloud showing what the twitter community has been saying:
access api apps available awesome back-story bank blog business catalog challenge check company cost country data decision development developmentseed economic expand fast fastcompany finance follow foster free getting global google group hans health indicators infographic information initiative innovation keys kudos launch making mapped massive news nice online open opendata opengov pay posts providers public released removes reports research rosling sets site stats ted tedchris thanks thousands thrilling vault via video vimeo walls warrenellis world worldbank
And in the spirit of open data, below are some topline stats for data.worldbank.org over the 7 days (4/20/10 - 4/26/10):
- 132,000+ daily unique visitors
- 134,000+ visits
- 671,000+ page views
- 53,000+ video plays from 100+ countries
- 7,000+ inbound links
- 23,000+ downloaded files
- 200+ email subscriptions
- 224% increase in visitors compared to old Data site section
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Open Source software + World Bank Data = Information Visualized
I have not seen many articles on the subject, but the WorldBank Data API is very easy to use and quite extensive. See for example:
http://r-chart.blogspot.com/2010/06/3-lines-of-r-code-to-process-web.html
http://r-chart.blogspot.com/2010/06/plotting-world-bank-data-with-r.html
Kudos to the developers responsible and the willingness to promote transparency.
Thanks for the links
CS,
Thanks for sharing these links and providing feedback about the World Bank API. We're ecstatic that you're finding it useful, and please feel free to get in touch with us if you want to discuss any ideas for further improvement.
On a semi-related note about the developers responsible and transparency, we also just released a drupal module that enabled us to build data.worldbank.org: http://drupal.org/project/wbapi
Thanks,
Livia Barton
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