{"id":701976,"date":"2010-03-26T09:47:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003776"},"modified":"2010-03-26T09:57:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T13:57:12","slug":"google-data-explorer-makes-pretty-charts-from-depressing-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/701976","title":{"rendered":"Google Data Explorer Makes Pretty Charts From Depressing Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/googledata-thumb-591x523-38628.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Google Labs recently unveiled its latest toy, the Public Data Explorer. The tool adds visualization features to Google&#8217;s public data search engine, letting you make charts and graphs like this one, which overlays unemployment stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on a U.S. map. Colorful and cheery, right? All those lovely pale green circles (10% umemployment), flashes of orange (13%) and the occasional outburst of red (15%). Who knew that modeling depressing data could be so much fun!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/publicdata\/home\">Google &#8211; public data<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Labs recently unveiled its latest toy, the Public Data Explorer. The tool adds visualization features to Google&#8217;s public data search engine, letting you make charts and graphs like this one, which overlays unemployment stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on a U.S. map. Colorful and cheery, right? All those lovely pale green circles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WCc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}