Gapminder releases brilliant data visualization on world development
Gapminder, a non-profit venture that develops data visualizations based on free statistics such as the 2006 World Development Indicators from the World Bank, has released a very impressive data visualization tool (screenshot below).
It's quite impressive the degree to which you can compare countries over time based on data points such as life expectancy, income per capita, and phone users per 1000 people. It's interesting to see China and India move pretty dramatically, like the like the Jovian giants Jupiter and Saturn, based on their enormous economic growth in the past two decades. This is definitely worth checking out. Props to John Dowdell for the link.
