An excellent graph is worth a million words
January 30th, 2007You may remember my praise for the speech by Hans Rosling in which he talks about the state of the world and how it’s changed over the last few decades (see my earlier post: http://www.mathoda.com/archives/54).
Professor Rosling used some incredible dynamic graphing software, created specifically to fit his needs, that allowed him to show a tremendous amount of data at the same time, and then show how it changed through time.
That software, called Gapminder, and the data Professor Rosling used is now easily accessible here, for anyone to play with. Definitely worth checking out: http://tools.google.com/gapminder/