December 22, 2009

Using Flash to breath new life into old statistics

You may remember Hans Rosling from his popular speaking engagements at TED. His team of developers used Flash to take existing data and present it in a way that allows the viewer to easily grasp complex patterns of social change in the developing world. Users can experiment with the interactive data graph online at Gapminder.org.

How might this type of interactive data visualization be utilized by educational institutions with other topics such as Engineering or Nursing? Visualizing stresses on machinery over time? Or the effects of combining medication on a patient?

1 comments:

Vienna Ly said...

If you're interested in creating custom graphs like these, check out Google Motion Chart for the Google Visualization API.