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Gapminder blows our minds
Monday, May 18 2009 | Author and
categories:Justin Hall
| PR,
marketing and design
Keith Parson, our friend and wireless expert, turned
me on to a website that provides huge amounts of data
on most issues and shows how it effects the world.
The tool from GAPMINDER is amazing. You can look at data about economies, health, birth rate, technology, environment... the list goes on and on. You can cross reference, look at different years, basically manipulate the data however you'd like, play timelines and more.
For example, I was interested in finding out what regions in the world apply for and are granted the most patents. The tool provides a range of 1984 - 2002 for data in this area. You can evaluate each year or play a timeline. The timeline reveals that while the US leads in accepted patents throughout history (in 2002 they had almost 170,000), in 1995 China pulled ahead for two years (hitting almost 220,000 accepted patents), until the US again overtook in 1997.
The information you can generate is very cool. Did you know: Slovenia has historically had the highest rating for literacy in adult females over the past 15 years! While African nations have plummeted.
If you're looking to generate some data, you may want to see what Gapminder can offer.
-posted by Justin
The tool from GAPMINDER is amazing. You can look at data about economies, health, birth rate, technology, environment... the list goes on and on. You can cross reference, look at different years, basically manipulate the data however you'd like, play timelines and more.
For example, I was interested in finding out what regions in the world apply for and are granted the most patents. The tool provides a range of 1984 - 2002 for data in this area. You can evaluate each year or play a timeline. The timeline reveals that while the US leads in accepted patents throughout history (in 2002 they had almost 170,000), in 1995 China pulled ahead for two years (hitting almost 220,000 accepted patents), until the US again overtook in 1997.
The information you can generate is very cool. Did you know: Slovenia has historically had the highest rating for literacy in adult females over the past 15 years! While African nations have plummeted.
If you're looking to generate some data, you may want to see what Gapminder can offer.
-posted by Justin