A swedish professor has compiled the extensive library of world wide data collected by the United Nations in an ingenious statistical program at his website gapminder.org. The site’s Gapminder World application allows you to plot different axes of world data versus each other and play a chronology of the resulting relationship over a 55 year time span. What makes the site so magnetic is the interface in which the data is presented. Groups of circles, sized according to population and color coded to their respective continents, shift and enlarge as the chronology progresses creating a vivid story. I suggest plotting the Number of Internet Users per Capita versus C02 Emissions. When the cursor gets to 1990 you’ll understand why.
May 7, 2008 at 5:42 am
so basically, some country in north africa where only 20% of people are online produces more co2 emissions than anywhere on earth. i wonder where that is…