September 4th, 2010
Teach with Gapminder World
A new Teacher´s Guide for lessons on global change since Industrial Revolution until today is available under the section For Teachers.
Teacher’s guide: Lesson on 200 years that changed the world
http://www.gapminder.org/for-teachers/
August 23rd, 2010
Gapminder Desktop user experiences
ReadWriteWeb has published a long, useful and thoughtful comment on their experiences of Gapminder Desktop – we think this comment can be useful for many users to read! Go to:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/setting_data_free_with_gapminder.php
Gapminder Desktop can be downloaded from here:
www.gapminder.org/desktop/
August 17th, 2010
Comment via feedback tag on left side
The feedback tag (on the left side of our webpages) brings you to Gapminder service forum on “Get Satisfaction”.
http://getsatisfaction.com/gapminder/questions/recent
This forum is by now so much used that we today switch of the many diverse comment features below our products and services. Our hope is that this facilitates for you to Read more …
August 17th, 2010
Sweden peaked in teen births 1966
Gapminder World now has an updated indicator for Teen Fertility Rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19). We have added time series for Sweden since 1800 and for US since 1940. Click the link and see the interesting peak in births among teenagers in Sweden in 1966. The drop coincide with the arrival of the Read more …
June 19th, 2010
Follow the World Cup in Gapminder
32 countries qualified to the Football World Cup in South Africa. In Gapminder World Cup you can see how they score on some football- as well as development indicators.
April 29th, 2010
Angus Maddison has passed away
24 April 2010, professor Angus Maddison passed away at the age of 83. Maddison was an economist and economic historian and a pioneer in exploring the broad developments of the world through statistics.
April 26th, 2010
Gapminder Desktop launched
Now you can use Gapminder World – with all its indicators – from your own computer, even when you have no Internet. Just download and install the brand new Gapminder Desktop.
April 21st, 2010
Free data from the World Bank
Yesterday (April 20, 2010) the World Bank reveiled that it will offer free access to a huge amount of development statistics. This bold and longly awaited step to liberate the data gives students, researchers, designers, journalists and organizations access to important statistics.
