GEOVISUAL ANALYTICS WEB-ENABLED TOOLS FOR DISSEMINATION OF OECD REGIONAL STATISTICS
Mikael Jern, Lau Caspar Thygesen, Monica Brezzi · 2008
This paper reflects a challenging applied research task to stimulate, at global level, exchange of statistical measures and knowledge through innovative Geovisual Analytics techniques. Establish progress initiatives at international and regional (sub-national) levels for measuring and collaborating, through statistical indicators, economic, social and environmental developments and to engage both statisticians and public. Higher integration driven by institutional processes and economic globalisation is eroding national borders and creating competition along regional lines in the world market. Sound information at sub-national level and benchmarking of regions across countries, therefore, has increased in importance in the policy agenda of many countries. In this context, National Center for Visual Analytics (NCVA) has in close collaboration with OECD developed “OECD eXplorer ”- a customized Web-compliant tool for interactively analyzing and communicating gained insights and discoveries about spatial-temporal and multivariate OECD regional data.