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.
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