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Behold, another super-cool gadget from Google. It’s called Gapminder World, and it was developed by the Gapminder Foundation, which describes itself as “a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development.” You can track almost any country in the world on a chart where you can make the x- and y-axes any one of more than a dozen development indicators. You can color the points differently based on region, or resize them based on population. You can see which countries are making progress and which are lagging behind. You can scale data logarithmically. Basically, it’s the coolest thing I’ve found on Google in a while. That’s saying something.
Just check it out.
— Nick Baumann
