Hjalmar Gislason's slides on "Understanding the world - through data and visualizations" at Nordic Techpolitics in Oslo, September 2nd 2011

1. F I N D A N D U N D E R S TA N D D ATA
Understanding the World
- through data and visualization
Hjalmar Gislason, founder & CEO Oct 2, 2011

2. Hjalmar
Gislason
Founder and CEO
Twitter: @datamarket
Slides: http://blog.datamarket.com/

3. NUMBERS
drive our world

4. Finding and understanding
numerical data is
HARD

5. GOOGLE
for numbers

6. “APP STORE”
for numbers

7. Wasn’t this supposed to be about
VISUALIZATION?

10. 109 columns
x
340 lines
=
37.060 cells

14. One-off projects
vs.
generic solutions

15. ...

16. More than
107,000,000
time series

17. 17.500
data sets

18. 782 years
1279 - 2061

19. SELF-
SERVICE
data insights & story-telling

20. | I N TR O D UC TI O N TO TH E EC ON O MI S T
| Hjálmar Gíslason, founder & CEO
| February, 2011

22. F I N D A N D U N D E R S TA N D D ATA
Hjalmar Gislason, founder & CEO
Twitter: @datamarket · Facebook: DataMarket · E-mail: hg@datamarket.com