As we mentioned in previous blogposts, there are many ways to interact with the new Inter-American Development Bank Open Data Portal, “Numbers for Development”. The portal allows you to explore, visualize and reuse over 1700 multi-sectorial indicators from 26 countries in the region collected by the Bank over more than 50 years. The following blogpost includes a step by step … [Read more...] about 5 ways to get a snapshot of a country’s key development indicators using the IDB Open Data Portal
How Open Data can help people decide where to live?
Leer blogpost en español By Derk Steemers, CMO of Place I Live The startup PlaceILive.com uses open data in order to help its users make better informed decisions on where to live. PlaceILive has its tools live for New York, Chicago and San Francisco in the United States, plus Berlin and London in Europe. The open data comes from sources like the US Census, NYPD, MTA, … [Read more...] about How Open Data can help people decide where to live?
How to filter and export data in the IDB Open Data Portal
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recently launched its open data portal called “Numbers for Development”. In previous blog posts we have already told you how to use the portal’s tools and how to create your own visualizations. This time, we want to show you how to filter and export data in different formats. These functions are important for you to have the flexibility … [Read more...] about How to filter and export data in the IDB Open Data Portal
How to create your own visualizations in the IDB open data portal
Leer blogpost en español This is the second blogpost of the series of tutorials on “Numbers for Development” By María Violeta Bertolini, Embedded librarian for the Institutions for Development Sector and member of the reference team at the Felipe Herrera Library of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) As we announced in our previous blogpost, the Inter-American … [Read more...] about How to create your own visualizations in the IDB open data portal
5 ways to use the IDB’s new open data portal
Lee el artículo en español/português. This is the first blogpost of the series of tutorials on “Numbers for Development” By Rodrigo Calloni from the Felipe Herrera Library at the Inter-American Development Bank The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) recently launched its Open Data Portal called “Numbers for Development” which allows you to explore, visualize and reuse … [Read more...] about 5 ways to use the IDB’s new open data portal