Gapminder
Reading Tim Lauer’s blog I came across this lecture by Hans Rosling about the gapminder tool. Absolutely mesmerizing way to look at data.
Click here to look at life expectancy over time. All the dots are “smart” (you can view what country they represent) and you can play with the years on the bottom. The effort to make data searchable and presentable is awesome. Will we need students who have a high level of understanding of geography, graphing, and data manipulations? Absolutely.
