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The U.S. 9/11 Commission Records: History, Collection Access, and Issues

“The dynamic nature of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill has been a challenge for a range of communities — from hotel operators to fishermen to local community leaders. And the American people have questions about the response to this crisis. NOAA has launched a new federal Web site meant to answer those questions with [...]

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If you are a visual learner as I am, then you’ll really appreciate Google Public Data Explorer. It makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don’t have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your finding with the available data sets at http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory.