cool links…
think statistics are boring, irrelevant and hard to understand? well, think again.
two examples of visually displaying important information in an amazingly cool way:
snapshots
territory size shows the proportion of all people living on less than or equal to US$1 in purchasing power parity a day.
worldmapper.org displays a large collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. sometimes an image says more than a thousand words…
information:
- about worldmapper.org
- the UC Atlas of Global Inequality
- the algorithm for resizing areas comes from the complex networks community: Diffusion-based method for producing density equalizing maps
M. T. Gastner, M. E. J. Newman - Newman’s homepage
evolution
want to see the global evolution of life expectancy vs. income per capita from 1975 to 2003? and additionally display the co2 emission per capita? choose indicators from areas as diverse as internet users per 1′000 people to contraceptive use amongst adult women and watch the animation.
gapminder is a fantastic tool that really makes you think…
information:
- the gapminder.org homepage
- h. rosling is the director of the gapminder foundation
- watch him give two inspiring, unusual and tantalizing talks using the gapminder tool: debunking myth about-the third world; 2006 and the seemingly impossible is possible; 2007
tags:
gapminder, global evolution, globalization, hans rosling, human development, inequality, mark newman, on line tools, poverty, state of the world, statistics, visualization, worldmapper