Gapminder: Animating the World’s Data

Gapminder is non-profit organization that makes social, environmental and economic development data from all the countries of the world available and accessible to all, for free. They have also created the Gapminder World tool, which lets you plot these data variables in a scatterplot: for example, life expectancy versus per-capita income, with a point size of population. Then (and this is the cool bit), you can animate that scatterplot over time, and see how the relationship changes between (say) 1901 and 2001.

Gapminder is non-profit organization that makes social, environmental and economic development data from all the countries of the world available and accessible to all, for free. They have also created the Gapminder World tool, which lets you plot these data variables in a scatterplot: for example, life expectancy versus per-capita income, with a point size of population. Then (and this is the cool bit), you can animate that scatterplot over time, and see how the relationship changes between (say) 1901 and 2001.