Usability Corner » gapminder http://usabilitycorner.com Some random thoughts about psychology, user experience, conscious thinking, design and technology Mon, 09 May 2011 03:06:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Amazing Graphic Data Tools http://usabilitycorner.com/index.php/2008/11/17/amazing-graphic-data-tools/ http://usabilitycorner.com/index.php/2008/11/17/amazing-graphic-data-tools/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:14:17 +0000 Manish Vashist http://www.usabilitycorner.com/?p=138 [ad]
Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing.

Anyone dealing with statistics should be empowered with the tools and techniques to present data like what Hans is doing in this insightful presentation. Am now exploring his initiative to bring all publicly funded database into the fore via www.gapminder.org.

Google has acquired Hans Rosling’s Trendalyzer software, which the Swedish demographer and his team at Gapminder(http://tools.google.com/gapminder) have developed since 2005 to generate more useful visualizations of facts and figures. Rosling has met the Google founders at TED2006, where he gave a thought-provoking speech on the nature of statistics and the general misinterpretation of them

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