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Thursday, February 14, 2008 Animated Statistics If you've ever attempted to either analyze or explain global statistical trends, over several decades, you may have found such a task to be somewhat difficult. After all, analyzing and explaining global trends typically requires compiling data from several public sources (i.e. UN, NGOs and other national sources). Wouldn't life be much easier if a computer program linked together these different sources of data? A new nonprofit venture, Gapminder, has done just that. Gapminder provides software that synthesizes data from the UN, NGOs and other publicly funded sources to provide lively animations of complex global trends such as poverty, fertility rates/child survival rates, GDP, and many other worldwide statistical trends.Posted by Andrea Wilson |
