Visualizations
Check out this demo of elastic lists (note the Tufte-insipired sparklines) looking at Nobel Prize data. First thing I did when I was playing around was see how many medicine, physics, chemistry and economics winners I could find from the Gap. In my five minutes, I only found one: Abdus Salam of Pakistan who won The Nobel Prize in Physics 1979. I’ve been thinking for a while that Nobel Prizes could be another metric for mapping the Core/Gap divide.
For folks wanting to build their own visualizations, check out IBM’s Many Eyes. Very hot. Upload your own dataset and then view the data through a nice selection of pre-made interactive visuals that can be published to a blog.
On a less breath-taking note, GeoHive has a nice aggregation of global statistics. All stuff you could have found elsewhere, just brought together in one place with a reasonably intuitive interface.
Finally, I expect folks are already familiar with Gapminder, so you’ll be as excited as I was to learn that Google has acquired Gapminder’s Trendanalyzer software. I expect to see some face-meltingly powerful services coming out of this.
