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Breakout Years in Adoption of Communications Technologies in BRIC Countries
http://www.gauravonomics.com/ blog/ breakout-years-in-adoption-of-communications…(Cross-posted on my fellowship blog - How International Values Shape Communications Technologies) Here’s a brilliant TED presentation by Hans Rosling on how to look differently at development indicators across countries and continents, using Gapminder’s trend visualization tool Trendalyzer – I
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Make the data dance
http://digicynic.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 08/ 14/ make-the-data-dance/From my friend Darius: Gapminder takes UN data and visualises it graphically over time. You choose all parameters (life expectancy, personal income, CO2 emissions, broadband penetration) and it maps trends by country over time. Go to http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/ It certainly does make the data dance.
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GeoCommons: Geo-Data Visualization for the Masses
http://blurringborders.com/ 2008/ 08/ 14/ geocommons-geo-data-visualization-for-…I remember the first time I saw Hans Rosling present his Gapminder project. In a TED video he wowed the crowd by bringing boring tables of statistics to life through stunning animations. His innovative presentation of data dispelled myths and misconceptions.
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Gapminder for Excel
http://peltiertech.com/ WordPress/ 2008/ 08/ 11/ gapminder-for-excel/We all have been awed and amazed by the Hans Rosling talk Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you’ve ever seen. The software used by Professor Rosling is Gapminder. There are demos and links to numerous similar presentations on their web site.
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Microsoft and EEA deal starting to pay off
http://greenmonk.net/ microsoft-and-eea-deal-starting-to-pay-off/James has written previously about how Microsoft and the European Environmental Agency (EEA) signed a non-exclusive five year deal with a goal to “make environmental information more accessible to citizens in Europe”. As James said at the time: Likesay, this is pretty much a canonical Greenmonk story.
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GapMinder - Population in Urban Areas
http://www.healthy-forum.info/ 2008/ 06/ 09/ gapminder-population-in-urban-areas…Movie for the blog of the GapMinder visualisation - now purchased by Google ShareThis
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Gapminder 1-3
http://www.healthy-forum.info/ 2008/ 06/ 09/ gapminder-1-3/Gapminder is an interactive presentation of The 2005 Human Development trends report produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Download or view Gapminder for free at www.gapminder.org ShareThis
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Engaged Learning Revisited: Four videoclips for reflection....
http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ engaged-learning-…Last October, I shared a couple of videos to highlight a discussion about engaged learning in a post on my TechPsych blog. Today, I received a thoughtful comment from a teacher who was moved by the videos.
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Myths About the Developing World (3of3) (Hans Rosling @ TED)
http://www.healthy-forum.info/ 2008/ 05/ 23/ myths-about-the-developing-world-3o…This global health visionary has discovered a powerful new way to communicate complex data about the world. He co-founded Gapminder, whose remarkable interactive graphs help deliver profound insights about global trends and dispel myths about the “developing world”.
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Gapminder: A Playground for Global Data Trends
http://buzzyeah.com/ 2008/ 05/ 13/ 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.
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