Thanks to Education/Technology blog for news that Google is collaborating with the Gapminder organization to produce a web based version of their development data visualization tool, previously available as as standalone application. It’s in beta at the moment and can be found here.
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Some related links are on this SLN thread too Noel
http://www.learningnet.co.uk/ubb/Forum5/HTML/006051.html
I used this an hour ago with AS grop to explore changes in fertility and mortality in particular countries. Click the LEAVE A TRAIL box, ‘tag’ some countries by clicking on them and then run the animation and you can see what’s happened – the hard bit is explaining WHY…
Thanks Alan. For some reason I hadn’t picked up on the SLN thread. Ollie Bray has created a link to a student guide to Gapminder written by Val Vannet.
http://olliebray.typepad.com/olliebraycom/2007/01/more_gapminder.html