Google has launched a tool that lets people delve into public sector datasets and create embeddable and linkable charts, maps and other graphics. Google Public Data Explorer, a pilot project ...

A new Google Labs project merges two breakthroughs into one. Public Data Explorer brings together more than a dozen databases — health statistics, population numbers, employment figures — with ...

Google Labs' experimental Public Data Explorer allows users to view and create charts based on public data such as mortality and fertility rates. While Google already incorporates such data from ...

In April 2008, Google launched its Public Data Explorer, a fantastic tool that allows you to visually explore and analyze very large data sets. Since then, it has curated 27 datasets including ...

Two years ago, Google acquired Gapminder, the Swedish graphics-display company whose Trendalyzer software specializes in representing data over time. (You may recall the company from this awesome and ...

While Data Explorer has been around for a while, it’s now been extended to allow users to upload and visualize their own data sets. But that’s not why Google’s effort is important.

Google’s new tool is called Public Data Explorer. Google is targeting students, journalists and politicians with the project, the company writes on the product page.