Google Buys Gapminder

By Paul Kedrosky · March 17, 2007 · ·

Google has bought a cool data visualization tool, Gapminder, and is making it available here. Nifty stuff — but too bad you can’t enter your own data yet.

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Comments

  1. BL says:
    March 17, 2007 at 12:47 pm

    The founder of Gapminder, Hans Rosling, gave an interesting (goes without saying) talk at TED last year.

  2. One Way Stox says:
    March 17, 2007 at 4:53 pm

    noticed that the first drop down box is for ‘carbon dioxide emissions, tons per capita’, easy to see where this is going…