http://www.humanitarian.info/2006/06/11/gapminder-development-statistics-for-normal-people/ because information can save lives Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:58:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.humanitarian.info/2006/06/11/gapminder-development-statistics-for-normal-people/comment-page-1/#comment-11486 humanitarian.info Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:43:47 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/2006/06/11/gapminder-development-statistics-for-normal-people/#comment-11486 [...] statistics can be fascinating and, in some cases, change the way that you see the world, then watch an amazing presentation by Hans Rosling on GapMinder. Filed under Development by Paul Currion Permalink • Print [...] [...] statistics can be fascinating and, in some cases, change the way that you see the world, then watch an amazing presentation by Hans Rosling on GapMinder. Filed under Development by Paul Currion Permalink • Print [...]

]]> http://www.humanitarian.info/2006/06/11/gapminder-development-statistics-for-normal-people/comment-page-1/#comment-173 ICT for Peacebuilding » Blog Archive » Social networks poised to shape Net’s future & information visualisation Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:35:01 +0000 http://www.humanitarian.info/2006/06/11/gapminder-development-statistics-for-normal-people/#comment-173 [...] Like Paul Currion, I’m interested in the visualisation of information - ways to represent complexity so as to make very large datasets more easier to navigate and comprehend. This is something that InfoShare experimented with in its early days through a tool called Semantic Navigator by ISX Corporation for Groove Virtual Office, that never got beyond the experimental stage, but was a phenomenally powerful tool that could work with massive databases to siphon relationships that would not be immediately evident. [...] [...] Like Paul Currion, I’m interested in the visualisation of information – ways to represent complexity so as to make very large datasets more easier to navigate and comprehend. This is something that InfoShare experimented with in its early days through a tool called Semantic Navigator by ISX Corporation for Groove Virtual Office, that never got beyond the experimental stage, but was a phenomenally powerful tool that could work with massive databases to siphon relationships that would not be immediately evident. [...]

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