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Hans Rosling's animated bubble chart of the world, still the fastest cure for being wrong about global development.
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Gapminder sits in Data Visualisation under Learn, filed as coffee break.
About this category: Visual journalism and open data done properly — charts you can interrogate rather than just look at. The argument is in the interaction.
Yes. Gapminder is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Gapminder without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file Gapminder as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
David McCandless's poster-grade infographics on everything from relative drug harms to the meanings of colours.
Every open source project plotted as a landmass, with related repositories clustering into continents you can pan across.
Notebooks for building charts in the browser, with a public gallery of thousands you can fork and pull apart.
Oxford's open charts on poverty, energy, health and war, with the underlying data downloadable from every single one.
An interactive world atlas you can scrub year by year from 3000 BC, watching every border redraw itself.
Real-time fog-of-war conquest on a grid, one army tick every half second. Simple rules, brutal depth, matches under ten minutes.
Walks you through rebuilding classic algorithmic pieces — tiled lines, Joy Division, cubic disarray — one step at a time.
Geometry, algebra and calculus tools in one place, plus a huge shared library of constructions others have built.
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