Gapminder: A Playground for Global Data Trends
Presentations of global data trends sound boring, right? Not so when it involves Hans Rosling and his Trendalyzer software.
Trust me. I just spent 30min messing around with Trendalyzer over on Gapminder.org.
I stumbled across Hans' Trendalyzer after watching this video of his amazing presentation at TED in March 2007. In the presentation, he blew the crowd away with fun, engrossing animations for global health, poverty and economics trends.
The Google founders were at the same TED conference and bought his software after seeing his presentation.
I suggest you jump over to Gapminder world right now and start playing with the chart.
You can change the data input on the y-axis and x-axis to anything you want.
You can select specific countries and compare them. And, you can also push the "play" button and animation bubbles will play the data over time like a movie.
It's super cool stuff, so be prepared to waste some time playing with it.
If you're feeling lazy and just want to watch short clips of the software in action than check out the Gapcast videos on Gapminder.
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