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admin | December 8, 2009 4:42 pm

http://www.gapminder.org/

h/t Ezra Klein.

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8 Comments
  • Cantab says:
    December 8, 2009 at 5:43 pm

    Noni,

    I downloaded the software and looked at the site. My take away is that its good to have the biggest bubble — did I get it right?

  • buffpilot says:
    December 8, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    Cantab – Bubble is Population size. China is teh big Red bubble and India the big blue one.

    Noni – I love these types of graphs. They are great for bringing history alive to kids. They are great tools to show how communism is absolutely horrible for example…

    Islam will change

  • Cantab says:
    December 8, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    buff,

    They are great tools to show how communism is absolutely horrible for example… 
    Small red bubbles?

  • run75441 says:
    December 8, 2009 at 7:45 pm

    I know! Tinajing, Beijing, and Shanghai have less of income than the US states with similar numbers of people as the US states, and a much lower infant mortality rate. How do they do that with so little income?

  • Noni Mausa says:
    December 8, 2009 at 9:07 pm

    I watched the TED presentation that Ezra linked to, first.  It was great! I loved watching the nations migrate from one quadrant to another, some of them wobbly in their movement, but most shifting and moving together like rowboats in the evacuation of Dunkirk.

    Bookmarked now, I can see I will be using it.

    Noni

  • Margery Meanwell says:
    December 8, 2009 at 9:35 pm

    Near the top are such world powers as Iceland, Switzerland, Belgium, etc. LOL. As was pointed out before to those who confuse per capita GDP with power, it is the TOTAL GDP of a nation that creates power, not the percapita income.

  • Margery Meanwell says:
    December 8, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    Yeah communism has made China such a weakling among nations. Simply terrible. Japan has been run until recently by the same politcal party for decades; in effect a party dictatorship, but easily fooled people think it is a democracy since people there ‘vote’.

  • Ossama Hamed says:
    December 9, 2009 at 5:08 am

    I have the pleasure to brief on our Data Visualization software “Trend Compass”.

    TC is a new concept in viewing statistics and trends in an animated way by displaying 5 axis (X, Y, Time, Bubble size & Bubble color) instead of just the traditional X and Y axis. It could be used in analysis, research, presentation etc. In the banking sector, we have sold it to Deutsche Bank New York.

    This a link on weather data :

    http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/aims/

    This is a bank link to compare Deposits, Withdrawals and numbers of Customers for different branches over time ( all in 1 Chart) :

    http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/               

    Misc Examples :

    http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/stockmarket1/
    http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/tax/
    http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/football/
    http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/swinefludaily/
    http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/flu/
    http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/babyboomers/
    http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/
    http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/advertising/

    This is a project we did with Princeton University on US unemployment :
    http://www.epicsyst.com/main3.swf
    A 3 minutes video presentation of above by Professor Alan Krueger Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University using Trend Compass :
    http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/princeton.aspx?home=1

    Latest financial links on the Central Bank of Egypt:

    http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/balance-sheet
    http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/banks-deposits-by-maturity/
    http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/egyptian-banks/
    http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/currency-by-denomination/

    I hope you could evaluate it and give me your comments. So many ideas are there.

    You can download a trial version. It has a feature to export EXE,PPS,HTML and AVI files. The most impressive is the AVI since you can record Audio/Video for the charts you create.

    http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/FreeVersion/TrendCompassv1.2_DotNet.zip

    All the best.

    Ossama Hamed
    Technical Director
    Epic Systems
    http://www.epicsyst.com

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