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Video Tour: World Factbook Dashboard by IBM is data visualization heaven
If you love data visualization, this one's going to blow your mind: I just found an incredible IBM demo, called World Factbook Dashboard.
It basically takes a ton of demographic and economic data (from the CIA World Factbook, I presume) and presents it in several beautiful ways that (mostly) make instant sense.
This is one of those rare cases where screenshots simply would not do, so I rolled up my sleeves and took the World Factbook Dashboard for a whirlwind ten-minute video tour with some really funny moments and lots of interesting facts and figures. Watch it after the jump!
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Subscribe to commentsJoshJul 29th 2010 12:15PM
These stats can't be right. Congo apparently has a 108% infant mortality rate. How can more than every baby born die? And yet they still have a growing population. Something doesn't add up here...
F-ZeroJul 29th 2010 12:18PM
Really? I read 147.
And IMR isn't read as a percentage, it's a "deaths per 1000 live births" figure
JoshJul 29th 2010 12:24PM
That would explain a lot. They just screwed up their display and put a percentage symbol when there isn't supposed to be one.
And there are two Congos, the Democratic Republic of Congo is 108. I'd be willing to bet that the Congo is 147
F-ZeroJul 29th 2010 12:15PM
Very nice looking tools - very useful for the classroom.
Might I recommend "http://www.gapminder.org"
Hans Rosling's site has already done something similar, with more variables, more data, and a focus on international comparisons
The graph is read outwards. Point of origin is zero, closer to the edge of the graph is a higher value. Each variable is one of the points on the graph, and you read along those lines that run around. Good for comparing between variables.
NemanjaTGGJul 29th 2010 10:49PM
I really don't know how valid are these informations.For example I am from Montenegro which is independent state after exited from Yugoslavia than Serbia & Montenegro state 2006 but you only see Serbia and no Montenegro.Montenegro is UN member since 2006 etc...
KowalskiJul 29th 2010 2:36PM
WHAT? Inflation rate in Poland over 20% ? What a load of rubbish! http://www.tradingeconomics.com/Economics/Inflation-CPI.aspx?Symbol=PLN
Maxime RouleauJul 29th 2010 4:39PM
Guyana and French-Guyana are together same goes for the PRC and Taiwan ... Someone screwed up big time.
fmacJul 29th 2010 5:26PM
This data is either incorrect or outdated. Population at India, Brazil, USA, Argentina are way down, for example.
Seamus DubhAug 6th 2010 5:46AM
The graph you are trying to figure out is called a Radar Chart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_chart