{"id":140,"date":"2007-01-24T00:22:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T04:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/archives\/140"},"modified":"2007-01-24T00:22:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-24T04:22:15","slug":"i-can-spend-hours-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/i-can-spend-hours-on-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can Spend Hours On This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The web provides such powerful ways to display data, and I&#8217;m delighted when people take advantage of this.\u00c2\u00a0 It looks like this one came out almost a year ago, but it&#8217;s new to me &#8211; and maybe new to you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tools.google.com\/gapminder\/\">Gapminder<\/a> let&#8217;s you look at various statistics about countries.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s incredibly rich.\u00c2\u00a0 Press play and you are simultaneously looking at how each country fares in two statistical measurements, the relative population size, the geographical region &#8211; as they vary over time!\u00c2\u00a0 Make sure you click on the axes and see the different statistics you can see, click a couple countries for highlighting, and more &#8211; the 1-minute demo you get from the help link shows a number of features.<\/p>\n<p>And once you get over the data display, you can even learn from the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The web provides such powerful ways to display data, and I&#8217;m delighted when people take advantage of this.\u00c2\u00a0 It looks like this one came out almost a year ago, but it&#8217;s new to me &#8211; and maybe new to you. Gapminder let&#8217;s you look at various statistics about countries.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s incredibly rich.\u00c2\u00a0 Press play and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dandunn.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}