{"id":1571,"date":"2009-11-24T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T22:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nnlm.gov\/pnr\/dragonfly\/?p=1571"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:43:03","slug":"dataviz","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/dataviz\/","title":{"rendered":"Minding Gaps and Visualizing Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Gapminder\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/5UCtdy\">Gapminder<\/a> is an international non-profit organization with a mission to better use statistics for &#8220;minding the gaps&#8221; in socioeconomic indicators within and among populations. Gapminder World features colorful animated graphs that show trends over time in a very compelling way.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, Gapminder founder Hans Rosling interprets a graph about global development over the last 200 years:<\/p>\n<p>[11\/30 Update: If YouTube is blocked for you, you can watch this same video (but without narration) here, or try this video on <a title=\"TeacherTube\" href=\"http:\/\/teachertube.com\/viewVideo.php?video_id=131640\">TeacherTube<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>The software behind Gapminder is called Trendalyzer. Google acquired Trendalyzer in 2007. Now you can create your own Trendalyzer animations using Google Spreadsheets and the Google Gadget <a title=\"Google Gadget Motion Chart\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/5MRD2F\">Motion Chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Science librarians and researchers will appreciate this motion chart from the site <a title=\"Eigenfactor\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/8WcucA\">Eigenfactor.org<\/a>, a project of Dr. Carl Bergstrom&#8217;s lab at the University of Washington. The motion chart shows the relative impact of scholarly journals over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gapminder is an international non-profit organization with a mission to better use statistics for &#8220;minding the gaps&#8221; in socioeconomic indicators within and among populations. Gapminder World features colorful animated graphs that show trends over time in a very compelling way. In this video, Gapminder founder Hans Rosling interprets a graph about global development over the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/dataviz\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17770,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions\/17770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}