Google向所有用户开放可视化信息图形工具Infographics

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　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　美国失业率气泡图

Google Opens Up Infographic Tools for Everyone's Use

Google向所有用户开放信息图形工具Infographics

Now, the Public Data Explorer lets you chart any data you might have. Animated bubble charts for everyone!

　　从现在开始，你可以利用Google的公共信息资源管理系统绘制你的任何数据了，谷歌“动画气泡图”，飞入寻常百姓家！

A great data for data geeks of all stripes: Today, Google has opened up the tools on its Public Data Explorer, so that you can use them to chart any old data set you might have laying around. "If you're a student or a journalist or a teacher, you can upload your data and get the same visualizations that we have for our own product," Ben Yolken, Google's product manager for the Public Data Explorer, tells Co.Design.

　　面向各类数据爱好者的大量资源：今天，谷歌开放了其公共数据资源管理工具，你可以用它来绘制任何你身旁乱糟糟的数据资源。谷歌公共数据资源管理工具产品经理本尤肯对Co.Design的记者介绍：“如果你是学生、记者或者教师，你可以上传你手中的数据并获得我们工具为您提供的同样优秀的视觉界面。”

The tools were first rolled out a year ago, after the company bought up the Gapminder Trendalizer, a bubble-chart data-viz technology invented by Dr. Hans Rosling, the infographics guru/health researcher/acclaimed TED genius.

　　这款工具最初推出与1年前，当时谷歌公司收购了一家掌握气泡图表可视化数据技术的公司Gapminder Trendalizer，其创始人是数据图形教主、生命健康研究员、饱受赞誉的TED天才 汉斯·罗斯林博士。

[Dr. Rosling showing off the Gapminder Trendalyzer, upon which Google's Public Data Exporer is based]

[视频链接]汉斯罗斯林博士展示Gapminder数据图，谷歌的公共数据资源管理工具正是基于此软件。

Thus, on the PDE site right now, you can see all manner of amazing time-based data animations, such as the relationship between fertility and life expectancy in the last 50 years; 20 years of U.S unemployment data; and even STD transmission in the last 15 years.

　　因此，在如今的PDF网站中，你可以查阅到各种各样神奇的以时间轴为基础的数据演示图，比如50年来的生育率与寿命预期的关系衍变图，20年来美国失业数据变化图，甚至你还可以看到过去15年疾病发病率图。

[Dr Rosling show how rich the tools are]

  [视频链接]罗斯林博士展示该工具的丰富应用

Now, to use all these nifty charts, you just have to put your data into a special format developed by Google, which is adapted to each of these visualizations. Afterward, you can share that data with anyone you want as a Google Doc.

　　现在，如果你想使用这些漂亮的图表，你只需要将你的数据导入到Google专门开发的与可视化图形配套的格式中即可。之后，你就可以像分享Google文档一样与任何人分享你的数据图了。

But Google isn't trying to supplant Excel or Powerpoint. "This isn't really a generalized table editor, so it doesn't replace a spreadsheet," Yolken tells us. "It's a complement to other systems." (Not to mention a tool that cost Google a tidy sum, and which is now free to use.)

　　但Google并不试图通过这一工具取代目前的Excel或者Powerpoint。尤肯表示：“它并不是一个真正意义上的表格编辑器，因此不会取代电子表格。它只是一种辅助工具。” （言下之意：Google花大价钱买下这个产品免费提供给任何人使用，并非要于此跟微软竞争）。

Yolken points that that all these data viz efforts fit in with Google's broader goal of making information -- and not just webpages -- transparent for public use and understanding (and, of course, the unspoken goal of feeding Google's massive cache of user data and keeping more people on Google for more hours). "People are constantly searching for the data we have on the site now," he says. "But data needs tools that allow people to understand and explore it."

　　尤肯指出，所有这些数据图形化工具的设计都在努力与谷歌更广大的目标相适应：为用户制作信息，而不仅仅是提供搜索网页来供公众使用和理解（当然，潜在目的是维持Google自身大量的客户数据以及促使更多人更持久地使用Google）。“人们已经开始不断地搜寻我们提供的数据了，”他说，“但是数据需要有相应的工具来便于公众理解和管理。”

Check out the tools here, under "My Datasets" and read Google's announcement about it here.

试用一下此工具，选择“我的数据库”或阅读谷歌声明。

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