Gapminder: very cool new acquisition by Google

http://tools.google.com/gapminder/

by pg • 19 years ago

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volida• 19 years ago

during gapminder presentation during leweb3. playback at minute 7:09: http://portal.vpod.tv/leweb3/70070

far33d• 19 years ago

That is a very clever visualization of a 4D data set. I really liked the concept of Swivel.com when it released, but gapminder + google seems like tough competition.

notabel• 19 years ago

The implementation here is really the amazing part; the basic data-vis tool is pretty simple (I wrote a much uglier variant in Mathematica, inspired by a proprietary stats app), but if they can/will expose this via a clean, open API, then this sort of visualization can become much more widespread. I don't know if/how google intends to make money from this, but if it's available as essentially a commodity visualization component for the web, then everyone benefits.

jwecker• 19 years ago

very interesting. This might be the first time Google ended up acquiring someone based on their Google TechTalk.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=engEDU+gapminder

r0b• 19 years ago

I've just spent an hour on gapminder. So cool. Much better than Swivel, in my opinion, though clearly more limited.

Gapminder: very cool new acquisition by Google

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