Tech at the speed of Warp

Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics!

GamMiner is a non-profit venture focused at delivering statistical data in statistical form so anyone can understand it. They mainly produce stunning visuals from available statistical data.

Available data ends with 2004 but starts with 1975. Nevertheless it offers very intuitive interface. You can change what each axis will represent; will it be life expectancy in correlation with income or with urban population. There are 16 different statistical indicators which you can combine as you wish. You can also select more countries to track.

One interesting thing I found is that Rhuanda, if looking at life expectancy with urban population you can see a sharp decrease until 1992 where only 6.5% of population is considered urban while life expectancy was ONLY 24 years. One missing feature is interface with for example Google Trends that would automatically input news and we could make more sense of what we see.

In addition to this flash application their main site is full of animated graphs that show from education indicators to the failure of UN's effort in reducing child deaths.

Labels: Design, Visualisation