If you follow the link provided. It will take you to a brilliant video by Hans Rosling. My hope, is that anyone watching at least begins to understand the power of data. Maybe not the exact method to manipulate the stuff, but at least the desire to know more about it.

This video is quite timely for me. For I have thought long and hard about putting together a series of posts on data analysis. Particularly on the work I have done in looking at the Deschutes County Clerks Data.

For those of you who don’t know. In the fall of 2007 I created a program that went to the county website and would pull public records and sales data concerning housing. It would throw this data into a usable database.  And I would use this data to educate family and friends on when our housing bubble was started, and how bad it really was.

I built a small website with this data, but stopped my work on it because of several complex reasons.

Anyway, if people are interested in how to analyze data, or would appreciate an ongoing conversation about it, let me know.