All of the tables in the 125th edition (2006) of the Statistical Abstract of the United States are available in Excel format. This is a huge leap forward from PDF, which is how StatAb has traditionally been published online.Via: The librarian is: BLOGGING | Journalism Library, Columbia University
I really appreciate that all tables have static URLs. This means that I can save and share these resources using the Zoho Sheet Online Excel Viewer. I have previously blogged about Zoho Sheet, a powerful (& free) Web 2.0 spreadsheet application. The Online Excel Viewer allows users to view and interact with existing Microsoft Excel spreadsheets entirely over the web.
Here are a few examples of using Zoho Sheet to view these static StatAb Excel files:
- Public High School Graduates by State: 1980 to 2004
- Electoral Vote Cast for President, by Major Political Party--States: 1964 to 2004
- Crude Oil Imports Into the U.S. by Country of Origin: 1980 to 2004
- Christian Church Adherents and Jewish Population, 2003--States
- U.S. and Worldwide Commercial Space Industry Revenue by Type: 2000 to 2003
And, YES, it is very nice to be blogging again.
8 comments:
Great news about the StatAB and perfect use for Zoho. Strike on up for web 2.0 ;)
Since it sounds like you have experience with large tables in PDF format, is there a good way to get the tables out of a PDF? I am working on a particular project and have tried exporting and conversion software, but the tables are always jumbled. Perhaps your experience has shown you a better way.
Thanks!
Yes, I am so very happy these tables are now available as Excel files.
I have had some success with the relatively new table tools available in Acrobat 7.
When all else fails, I have in the past had to bite that sour bullet and save the PDF as a txt file and then try to find recognizable patterns in the table.
Matt, another sporadically-successful solution is to use pdftohtml, part of xpdf. It's almost certainly inferior to Acrobat's extract for this task, but if you're going to end up doing find/replace on string patterns, you may or may not want html tags to work with.
Chris, that's wonderful... I never considered converting the PDF to HTML before.
I'm definitely going to give this a shot the next time I have trouble with one of them persky PDFs. I'm curious to see if the HTML tags will actually help to parse the text. Thanks for the tip!
Mapz: Thanks once again for putting Zoho Sheet's Online Excel Viewer to use!
Arvind, you guys make some great tools. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for your compliments, Mapz :-)
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