New google toy - The Gapminder World

gharp · #1 01-23-2007, 02:50 PM

Haven't seen this posted yet:

The Gapminder World 2006

Lots of fun to play with if you're a world demographics dork like me.

miajag · #2 01-23-2007, 04:02 PM

This is really cool. Thank you for posting.

A pretty good challenge would be to see how many countries you can identify solely from the size, color and movement of its corresponding circle.

AngusThermopyle · #3 01-23-2007, 05:41 PM

Track Rwanda. A rather depressing dip in life expectancy '92.

RiverFenix · #4 01-24-2007, 02:16 PM

Why the hell didnt I think of that, program it, and sell it to google.

MrX · #5 01-25-2007, 01:45 AM

Lesotho and Batswana look like the CLiffHanger game on the Price is Right.

cbloom · #6 01-27-2007, 01:04 PM

BTW this is the talk about gapminder :

http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalks...y=hans_rosling

Or you can just go to their web site and they offer lots of different software :

http://www.gapminder.org/