Gapminder -- anyone see this new tool from Google?

[Andrew]

Just found this link on an ecnomics blog. Its a flash app that maps demographic and economic data by countries, and then play its from 1960 to today. Very interesting:

The Gapminder World 2006, beta

 

[ltn1dr]

Wow, thats a pretty cool looking.

Google always makes the coolest looking things.

 

[Mike]

It's cool, but what is it useful for?

 

[DruSam]

nifty :338:

 

[pocketrockets]

Cool visual graph data. It looks like it was actually developed by a Swedish team but Google is hosting it.

There is an interesting video by the creators and their data showing the human development trends.

Gapminder.org - Google Video

 

[DaveEMG]

Get concerned when the yellow dot starts getting overtaken by the giant red and blue ones.

 

[aim]

Everytime I think I'm a great developer, somebody shows me something like that. That's crazy awesome.