{"id":366,"date":"2006-08-25T01:14:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T01:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2010-06-21T18:05:28","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T10:05:28","slug":"great-statistics-gapminder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/great-statistics-gapminder-366","title":{"rendered":"Great statistics - gapminder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do yourself a favour and check out the brilliant animated presentations of data at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/\">Gapminder<\/a>. I love Gapminder's vision:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From their About page:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. This is done in collaboration with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen\">video intro on Gapminder's data visualization<\/a>  by the enthusiastic Hans Rosling is a good place to start.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example, showing Egypt's child survival rate improvement from 1960 to 2003, compared to per capita GDP.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image368\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/08\/gapminder.gif\" alt=\"Gapminder visualisation\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>From Third World to First<\/h2>\n<p>You can see Singapore's dramatic improvement in living conditions since the 1960s (the yellow dots represent stats for each year. Up and right is good.):<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image369\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2006\/08\/gapminder2.gif\" alt=\"Gapminder - Singapore\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A lot of their visualizations are free to download. I love it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics does not need to be boring. Gapminder.org has brilliant visual representations of data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[131,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}