About DataMarket

DataMarket helps business users find and understand data, and data providers efficiently publish their data and reach new audiences.

DataMarket's unique data portal - DataMarket.com - provides access to thousands of data sets holding hundreds of millions of facts and figures from a wide range of public and private data providers including the United Nations, the World Bank, Eurostat and the Economist Intelligence Unit. The portal allows all this data to be searched, visualized, compared and downloaded in a single place in a standard, unified manner.

DataMarket’s data publishing solutions allow data providers such as market research companies, financial institutions and analytics firms to easily publish their data on DataMarket.com and on their existing websites through embedded content and branded versions of DataMarket’s systems, enabling all the functionality of DataMarket.com on top of their own data collections.

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DataMarket ehf. is a privately held company, incorporated in Iceland in June 2008. DataMarket, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of DataMarket ehf. incorporated in Delaware, USA in January 2012.

Declaration of principles

At DataMarket we take data seriously. We are committed to doing our best to communicate the data we work with in the most objective, understandable and clear way possible.

To guide our decision making, state to our partners and customers, and remind ourselves of this commitment we’ve written our very own “Declaration of Principles” (in the spirit of Citizen Kane) that now proudly hangs on our office wall.

The declaration reads as follows:

We respect data

• We will remain impartial and unbiased.
• We will deliver to users the same data we received from the data provider.
• We will never taint the presentation of data with value judgments.

Our performance is impressive

• We will never let users wait more than two seconds.
• We will never cut corners so that performance suffers.
• We will always be up.

Our user experience is delightful

• We help users find and understand the data that is relevant to them.
• We will never tell a user to read the manual.
• We will never let user experience suffer to make our lives easier.
• We will always continue to improve the user experience.

Our charts and tables communicate the data correctly AND look fantastic

• Our automated charts are of tailor-made quality.
• Our data views hold all the information needed to understand the data.
• We always convey data providers, sources, units, URLs for further info, licenses, titles, legends, selections and other metadata.

We respect our customers

• We will always strive to make our customers happy.
• We will always be straight with our customers.

We help you fall in love with data!

You can download the poster in PDF format here.