DataMarket
Type | Private |
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Founded | Reykjavík, Iceland (2008 ) |
Founder | |
Headquarters | Reykjavík , Iceland |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | , Gunnlaugur Briem |
Services | data visualization |
Owner | Qlik[citation needed] |
Number of employees | 7 |
Website | datamarket |
DataMarket is a privately held Icelandic company that specialises in providing access to and visually displaying data from public and, to a lesser extent, private institutions and companies. DataMarket was established in Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland in 2008. The Guardian Technology blog labeled DataMarket as being "Impressive, and interesting".[1]
One of DataMarkets contracts was to graphically visualize the 2011 budget for Reykjavík municipality.[2] DataMarket has gotten wide media coverage in Iceland.[3][4][5][6]
Initially DataMarket focused on the Icelandic market by incorporating data from various public institutions such as Statistics Iceland, the Central Bank of Iceland, the , the , , Registers Iceland, the Report of the Althingi Special Investigation Commission and the private Icelandic consultancy firm to name a few.
Recently it has branched out and DataMarket now provides access to international data from Eurostat, United Nations Statistics Division, The World Bank and the Gapminder Foundation.[7][8]
DataMarket won two awards at the annual 2011 , awarded by the non-profit , one for the most interesting web and one for the best service and information web.[9][10]
In 2014, DataMarket was acquired by Qlik.[11]
References[]
- ^ Josh Halliday (24 January 2011). "The Technology Newsbucket: Google's opt-outs, Windows Phone 7 feature availability, and more". The Guardian. London.
- ^ Vefur Reykjavíkurborgar - Fjárhagsáætlun 2011 Archived 2012-09-08 at archive.today (Icelandic)
- ^ Microsoft notar nafnið DataMarket
- ^ Alþjóðleg gögn aðgengileg á DataMarket
- ^ DataMarket opnar gagnatorg á netinu
- ^ Nýju gagnatorgi á vefnum hleypt af stokkunum
- ^ "13 thousand data sets, 100 million time series, 600 million facts « DataMarket blog". Archived from the original on 2011-01-27. Retrieved 2011-02-13.
- ^ Sardar Mohkim Khan (26 January 2011). "DataMarket Expands Horizons: Adds 100 Million Time Series, 600 Million Facts". ArcticStartup.
- ^ "Icelandic Web Awards Presented". Iceland Review. 8 February 2011.
- ^ Úrslit í Íslensku Vefverðlaununum (Icelandic)
- ^ "Datamarket selt fyrir 1.440 milljónir króna". Viðskiptablaðið. 31 October 2013.
External links[]
- DataMarket.com (official site) [ is ]
- Information technology companies of Iceland
- Companies established in 2008
- Internet properties established in 2008
- Data visualization