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Shaedys

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More so then throwing this into chat I figured I'd post the link in here.
http://www.gapminder.org/
Brilliant look at statistics from hans Rosling who also made the documentary the joy of stats and gave 2 intresting ted talks.
It allows you to look at statistics in a different way, you can check for example the gdp vs the lifespan of nations for the past 200 years, really intresting to see what happens over the 20th century.
Did anyone else find this already, or what do you think about his endeavour to spread this knowledge?
 
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Shaedys said:
More so then throwing this into chat I figured I'd post the link in here.
http://www.gapminder.org/
Brilliant look at statistics from hans Rosling who also made the documentary the joy of stats and gave 2 intresting ted talks.
It allows you to look at statistics in a different way, you can check for example the gdp vs the lifespan of nations for the past 200 years, really intresting to see what happens over the 20th century.
Did anyone else find this already, or what do you think about his endeavour to spread this knowledge?
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To my knowledge, he gave seven (7) TED-talks. Here's a link: http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html

As a geography teacher, I'm very happy that I found this two or so months ago. I was able to show it to my students (Though sadly I could only send them a link and obviously only 1-2 watched it at home. Stupid school... :p ) and I'll use it much more in my new school. (Still 4-5 years to go, but oh well...)

I'm not AS passionate about the whole subject as he is (I mean damn, have you seen him? :lol: ) but I'd probably be if I had the time. It's an excellent project and it's a huge step into the right direction, but there's still a long way to go. For example, I'd love to see the statistics from the HDI and HPI integrated. I'd also want the UN, HDI and HPI to make their statistics easy to enter into such a program, so that you could just take any statistics you wanted to and compare them by importing them.

But yes, in general, it's brilliant. He's brilliant.
 
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Gapminder is a nice tool! In my view is one of the few representations of correlations (however, sometimes biased, since it is not individual data) for laymen!
 
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