Our World in Data

Today I discovered Our World in Data, an open source collation of data from reputable sources such as the World Bank. The project is affilated with Oxford University, and has built a really impressive set of interactive charts covering a whole host of topics from economic data to human rights and pollution.

Even more impressive is that they have gone to great lengths to make the data accessible, and the processing fully transparent. They have also created an API (Application Programming Interface) that allows for programmatic access to the clean data sets. Sweet.

Furthermore the interactive charts they have built can easily embedded in other sites. By way of an example, take a look at this analysis around per capita CO₂ emissions.

I plan to explore the data available here in much more detail, and given how easy it is to embed the interactive charts, I suspect I will be making use of them in future blog posts too.

In the spirit of showing the variety of data available to explore, here is a dataset showing the evolution over time of the performance of Artificial Intelligence models compared to a human intelligence benchmark (set at 0). It shows that these models have burst past the capability of humans on tasks where machines were historically incapable.

Lastly, here's the great news on poverty in Europe (as of date of writing this post).