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"Hans Rosling is debunking the River of Myths about the developing world. By measuring the progress in the once labeled "developing countries", preventable child mortality can be history by the year 2030."

he cigar-chomping reporter in the saggy brown suit with holes in his shoes and a nose for news is a stereotype that doesn't have much of a counterpart in today's real world. There's a new breed of investigative reporter in town: the geek who knows how to extract raw data from public sources, crunch the numbers, and spew out compelling analyses -- often with startling visuals to match.

Syngenta is a global agriculture business that helps farmers make better use of their available resources, primarily through agrochemical and seed production. In order to continue to advance crop productivity, it invested more than $1.4bn in research and development (R&D) across 150 international sites in 2014.

n today's digital era, governments across the globe are amassing larger amounts of data than ever before. Some of this is structured data such as census records, phone numbers, addresses, and any information that can easily be entered into a database or spreadsheet. And some of it is unstructured data, or harder-to-analyze information such as emails, documents, web pages, photos, and videos.

We keep our data updated with the latest available numbers, up to 2012! Updated indicators include GDP per capita, fertility rates, among others! Dig in and enjoy the Gapminder World!

What if you could structure the content of a web page based on how humans actually read those pages, Tung asked back in 2008 when he founded Diffbot?

"The government wants to move towards a 'data culture' to make better spending decisions, says minister responsible for digital reform, Matt Hancock"

It's a BIG presentation - takes a while to download and open (doesn't seem to work in Chrome at all)

ounded in 2004 we're a not-for-profit organization promoting open knowledge: that's any kind of information - sonnets to statistics, genes to geodata - that can be freely used, reused, and redistributed.