a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics! Gapminder promotes sustainable global development by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.
information on new indicators, updates and corrections of existing indicators as well as other information about the indicators used in Gapminder World.
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds
Wired Magazine issue 16.07. Data Deluge. Crop predictions. Quark. Data mining. tracking news. watching the skies, scanning skeletons. airfares. voting. epidemics. google events. terrorism. visualizing big data
Gapminder World is powered by Trendalyzer and Google Spreadsheet. there are video-tutorials in the "help pages" available in the upper left corner of Gapminder World.
NameVoyager tracks names of babies born in the United States, as reported by the Social Security Administration (SSA). We have cleansed the raw SSA data and performed statistical transformations to allow meaningful historical comparisons.