Data are cool

[drwex]

Or, learn while you play.

I got pointed to this (http://www.gapminder.org/world) data-set visualization/animator as an example of playfully engaging UIs. Apparently Google is the monetary source behind it being put online. The originator is Hans Rosling, who showed the software at a TED talk in '06. The talk is awesome: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/92 in part for its ability to use data to bust common myths. The fact that you can then go out and play with these same data yourself makes it even cooler, I think.

Comments

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[drwex]

Thanks. I seem not to have a good email address for you - where should I send you mail?

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

My LJ address works.

[bluegargantua]

Man...South Africa really hits the skids in the 90's.

later
Tom

[drwex]

Did you watch the TED talk? Part of what he's on about is that we overgeneralize and over-stereotype things like South Africa.

And, yeah, AIDS really slams SA around that time.