Trendalyzer is an

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software for

animation Animation is a method by which image, still figures are manipulated to appear as Motion picture, moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent cel, celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited ...

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

that was initially developed by

Hans Rosling Hans Rosling (; 27 July 1948 – 7 February 2017) was a Swedish physician, academic and public speaker. He was a professor of international health at Karolinska Institute and was the co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which deve ...

Gapminder Foundation Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture registered in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and ...

in Sweden. In March 2007 it was acquired by

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The current beta version is a

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application that is preloaded with statistical and historical data about the development of the countries of the world. The

technique used by Trendalyzer is an interactive

bubble chart A bubble chart is a type of chart that displays three dimensions of data. Each entity with its triplet (''v''1, ''v''2, ''v''3) of associated data is plotted as a disk that expresses two of the ''vi'' values through the disk's ''xy'' location and ...

. By default it shows five variables: Two numeric variables on the X and Y axes, bubble size and colour, and a time variable that may be manipulated with a slider. The software uses

brushing and linking In databases, brushing and linking is the connection of two or more views of the same data, such that a change to the representation in one view affects the representation in the other. Brushing and linking is also an important technique in inter ...

techniques for displaying the numeric value of a highlighted country. Components of the Trendalyzer software, particularly the Flash-based Motion Chart gadget, have become available for public use as part of the Google Visualizations API (se

).

Similar projects

Trend Compass
(flash)
Eurostat explorer
(flash)

References

External links

The Gapminder World
using Trendalyzer to display various statistics about the world's countries. A tab allows access to a download package
Make Your Data Tell a Story
"Reports, tables, charts and dashboards all deliver information, but information alone isn't understanding"
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