Awesome Google widget

[figment]

http://tools.google.com/gapminder

Charts life expectancy against income per capita, all over the world. Color coded by regions shown on a map. You can single out particular countries and watch their progress from the 1970s or so on. Really, really neat. Also depressing when you look at countries like, oh, Rwanda.

Comments

[techdragon.livejournal.com]

There are also a bunch of other things to track... the side bar is a clickable link so you can track things like physicians per 1000 people.

Way cool

[jgs42.livejournal.com]

... thanks for sharing! Kinda grim to animate it and watch Africa start to drift down like snowflakes around the early-mid '90s.

Lecture on gapminder

[jgs42.livejournal.com]

Here (http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=hans_rosling) is a lecture about this very cool tool. If only my college professors had been so animated! (Well, a few were.)