Gapminder is a non-profit venture—a modern “museum” on the Internet—promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
The initial activity was to pursue the development of the Trendalyzer software. Trendalyzer sought to unveil the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics. The current version of Trendalyzer is available since March 2006 as Gapminder World, a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries.
Books
- How to Lie with Maps by Mark Monmonier
- How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
- Head First Data Analysis: A learner’s guide to big numbers, statistics, and good decisions by Michael Milton