FlagAndMap Weblog » geography facts http://www.flagandmap.com/weblog the blog of small things concerning flagandmap.com Fri, 15 Jan 2021 12:07:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Statistics for a Fact Based World View http://www.flagandmap.com/weblog/2014/08/12/statistics-for-a-fact-based-world-view/ http://www.flagandmap.com/weblog/2014/08/12/statistics-for-a-fact-based-world-view/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:40:38 +0000 mapster http://www.flagandmap.com/weblog/?p=808 Gapminder.org is a website that presents statistics on global economic development in a way that is entertaining and interesting. Their first challenge was to tap into those statistics, which are typically held by organizations such as the United Nations but are not generally presented in a way that captures the imagination. They then developed the Trendalyzer software, which presents that data in time lapse fashion and graphically illustrates key changes over time. Watch some of their videos and you may well come across some recent trends in global development that will surprise you.

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