(This article was first published on rforcancer, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
I have just discovered yet another public data site www.datamarket.com. Most of the data are time-series. It collects together things like World bank, Eurostat, Gapminder into the one place. It also allows you to download data as csv files or to create a graph and link for embeddign into a web-page-- as below.
occasionally it doesn't quite come out right but it's a nice tool to try...
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