13 October 2009

Eurostat data visualization toolsRosa Ruggeri Cannata Unit D5 Key indicators for European policies

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Main tools

Table Graph Maps (TGM)

Country profiles

Business Cycle Clock

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Table Graph Maps (TGM)

Available since September 2007 Displaying a simple data set as a table, graph or map Covering almost 2000 tables Targeted to the general public User customizable, interactive and downloadable graphs

and maps– bookmark– e-mail– print – download

Euroindicators/PEEIs web page linked to TGM

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TGM characteristics Tables:

– Data downloadable in Excel, html, xml and TSV format

– Optionally: footnotes and short descriptions

– Excel and html files with dynamic link toward the up-to-date table

Graphs:– Downloadable bar charts (horizontal and vertical), pie charts, line

graphs and scatter plot

– animation option

Maps:– Can be zoomed and re-centred with respect to a selected point

– Downloadable

– “Compare with” functionality

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TGM - Metadata

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Country profiles

EU-27, euro area, EFTA, candidate countries, USA, Canada and Japan statistical data

A coloured graph with the latest data available is shown for each indicator in a map of Europe

Directly linked to TGM Provides links to general information and news

concerning each geographical entity

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Business Cycle Clock Acknowledgements go to Statistics Netherlands for

sharing their visual concept of tracing business cycles On line since July 2008 Animated graphical interface for the cyclical evolution of

European and national PEEIs GDP, consumption, investment, imports and exports,

(un-)employment, Economic Sentiment, industrial production….

Indicators move clockwise as a cloud Some lead, others lag behind Up to 6 geographical entities (release 2009)

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Economic evolution

Four phases: (1) the indicator is above its long-term trend and is

increasing (2) it is still above the long-term trend, but after having

reached a peak it is now gradually moving downwards (3) after subsequent decreases it reaches levels below

the long-term trend and is heading into a trough (4) gradually picks up again even though still under the

long-term trend

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Data treatment

Time series starting generally in 1990 (some from 1995) Seasonally adjusted data Expressed as an absolute index or as an absolute

number Christiano-Fitzgerald (CF) band-pass filter Normalized

– zero average and unit standard deviation

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Business Cycle Clock: data

seasonally and trend adjusted time series data (growth rates)

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Eurostat Internet Site: consultation

495 000 Tables consultation with the TGM interface (300 000 in March 2007)

91 000 Metadata consultation (112 000 in March 2007)

24 000 consultations of the new country profile interface

5000 Consultation of the Business Cycle Clock

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Thank you

for your attention