GAPMINDER

Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture registered in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
The Foundation developed the Trendalyzer software, which was acquired by Google in March 2007. The current version of Trendalyzer is Gapminder World, a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries and many sub-national regions. Gapminder world uses "Google Motion Charts" to power its graphics. The Gapminder Foundation has also produced a number of other projects, including:

• World Income Distribution, an interactive display of statistics on household income distribution for Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Nigeria, Pakistan and USA and the World as a whole in each year from 1970 to 1998.
• Dollar Street, an interactive display of the world as a street. The street number is the daily income per person in the family. All people of the world live on Dollar Street. The poorest live in the left end and the richest in the extreme right end. All other people live in between on a continuous scale of daily incomes.
• Human Development Trends 2003, a linear thematic Flash presentation is developed with United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for the release of the Human Development Report 200.
• World Health Chart 2001, a display of 50 to 100 years of health development for all countries of the World with time series for 35 indicators provided by the World Health Organization.
  
  
   
  
  
   
  
  
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Federal Reserve Economic Data

What is FRED? Short for Federal Reserve Economic Data, FRED is an online database consisting of more than 72,000 economic data time series from 54 national, international, public, and private sources. FRED, created and maintained by Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, goes far beyond simply providing data: It combines data with a powerful mix of tools that help the user understand, interact with, display, and disseminate the data. In essence, FRED helps users tell their data stories. The purpose of this article is to guide the potential (or current) FRED user through the various aspects and tools of the database.

As mentioned above, as of the time of this writing, FRED contains more than 55,000 data series from over 40 sources. These are not static figures. The Research Department has a firm commitment to the growth of the database. Since its inception, FRED has contained many of the more popular figures reported by the Board of Governors, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Census—among others. Through time, FRED has expanded its collection to include many more international, national, and regional data series. More recently, it has become clear that data surrounding other topics and geographies must also be included if FRED is to best serve its users. Naturally, care must be taken to add data in a thorough and prudent manner; nevertheless, the data content will continue to grow and evolve.

Certain data, as it travels through time, is subject to revision. Anyone who follows GDP long enough will be familiar with the BEA revising (up or down) their quarterly released figure. The FRED database always contains and displays the most recent revision—or vintage—of the data available. But FRED’s real-time relative, the aforementioned ALFRED (ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Database), captures all of these individual revisions to a data series. This means that collectively, FRED and ALFRED data can literally be used as a data time machine, allowing users access to the precise data that their predecessors used. Researchers often attempt to replicate results of previous academic papers or use data to “train” economic models; in these instances, the relevance of these FRED tools becomes clear.

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IHS Global Insight

IHS is a global information company with world-class experts in the pivotal areas shaping today’s business landscape: energy, economics, geopolitical risk, sustainability and supply chain management. It employs more than 6,000 people in more than 31 countries around the world. 

IHS Global Insight Country Intelligence provides constantly updated analysis of the business conditions, economic prospects and risks in over 200 countries.

It assess new market opportunities for foreign direct or portfolio investment, trade in securities and currencies, or monitor the risk landscape in country, regional, or global markets.

IHS Global Insight Industry Intelligence covers the world's industries with unparalleled
expertise, market perspectives, and global analysis. In addition to our thorough global industry analysis and detailed U.S. Industry coverage, IHS Global Insight has expertise in all major industries. 

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TED

TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".

TED was founded in 1984 as a one-off event. The annual conference began in 1990, in Monterey, California. TED's early emphasis was technology and design, consistent with its origins in the Silicon Valley.

The TED main conference is held annually in Long Beach, and its companion TEDActive is held in Palm Springs. Both conferences will move from Long Beach and Palm Springs to Vancouver and Whistler, respectively, in 2014.


TED events are also held throughout the U.S. and in Europe and Asia, offering live streaming of the talks. They address a wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture, often through storytelling.The speakers are given a maximum of 18 minutes to present their ideas in the most innovative and engaging ways they can.

TED's current curator is the British former computer journalist and magazine publisher Chris Anderson.

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WOLFRAM ALPHA

Wolfram Alpha (also styled WolframAlpha and Wolfram|Alpha), is a computational knowledge engine or answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from externally sourced "curated data", rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might.


Wolfram Alpha, which was released on May 15, 2009, is based on Wolfram's earlier flagship product Mathematica, a computational platform or toolkit that encompasses computer algebra, symbolic and numerical computation, visualization, and statistics capabilities.

 

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CONNECT 4

CONNECT 4 provides information used to track and analyse such as takeovers and mergers, capital raisings, auditing and accounting practices, and corporate governance compliance.


Connect 4, owned by Thomson Reuters, specialises in providing information on companies which are listed on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Founded in 1992, our Analysts and Technical staff are dedicated to providing comprehensive, innovative, unique and leading edge products to assist the market place in understanding the activities of publicly listed companies in Australia.

Our products are used in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. We have recently formed a marketing relationship with europrospectus.com in The United Kingdom for the purpose of providing Australian company information to the UK and Europe.

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EMERALD INSIGHT

Emerald is a global publisher providing you with the highest quality, peer-reviewed research. With over 40 years’ experience, Emerald manages a portfolio of over 290 journals.
 

Featuring journals that are indexed by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Scopus, content is selected for original contribution to the subject field, as well as practical relevance to policy making and future inquiry. 

The Emerald Books portfolio now includes well over 2,000 titles, with a further 160 new titles due to publish this year. Our respected international author and editor base, genuine global appeal and usage of both print and ebooks have contributed to Emerald’s growing reputation as a major scholarly book publisher.

Our books address and explore some of the world’s most topical issues, from the global financial crisis to social media, from sustainability to virtual learning, ensuring our research continues to have impact and relevancy for students, researchers, practitioners, businesses, government departments and institutions worldwide.
 


Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies (EEMCS) is an online collection of peer-reviewed case studies focusing on business decision making and management development throughout key global emerging markets.
Cases are written by case writers working in or closely with developing economies, offering local perspectives with global appeal.
 
EEMCS was developed in 2011 in response to increasing demand from business educators and practitioners for quality-controlled teaching cases focusing on global emerging markets. The collection receives regular content updates throughout the year and all cases benefit from a supportive peer-review process to ensure the highest quality content.

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