Gapminder

Since the Trendalyzer development was taken over by Google the Gapminder Foundation maintain the same aim and uses Trendalyzer and its resources to produce videos and web service showing major global development trends with animated statistics.

On the Gapminder website, visitors are reminded to mind a variety of gaps, whether they be in income inequality or quality of health care.

This rather absorbing website was created as a non-profit venture to promote "sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information." The site makes use of Trendanalyzer software to offer visualizations related to questions that include "Which country has the best teeth in the world?" and "Who gets what: Farm subsidies".
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Related links
Hans Rosling (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Talks Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world
Gapminder World Blog

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