The Observatory of Economic Complexity |
interactively explore economic/trade data for various countries |
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Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) |
various US-related econometric and demographic data |
convenient data browser with graphs |
The Opportunity Atlas |
zoomable US map showing detailed econometric and demographic data |
- US only
- interactive map
- neighborhood-level detail for big cities
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World Population Density Interactive Map |
see (almost) exactly where people live around the world |
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Gapminder Tools |
compare countries over hundreds of metrics and over the years: their sources are
the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, etc.
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- their data before the 1950s seem too speculative to be of real use
- the United Nations Statistics Division was created in 1947
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Wikipedia’s List of International Rankings |
links to several country-ranking lists over various criteria |
social indicators, especially crime-related ones, often measure different things
in different countries
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Commodity Markets |
data and research about global commodity markets |
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Open Street Map |
explorable world map with tons of local info for most major cities |
in some ways even more useful/complete than Google Maps |
ADS-B Exchange |
live-track up to thousands of aircraft from all around the world |
apparently much less censored than similar sites, like FlightRadar24 |
Desmos Graphing Calculator |
graphing calculator similar to GeoGebra |
public permalinks don’t need an account |
Excel-workbooks Viewer |
drop XLSX files on the page to view them |
Excel files in XLS format (without the final X) not supported |
DuckDuckGo !bang |
find shortcuts to enable context/site-specific searches on DuckDuckGo |
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Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection |
dozens of puzzles playable from the site; also available as all-in-one apps for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS |
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