GapMinder is the site I showed earlier in the semester when we discussed scatterplots. Here is the scatterplot of theĀ “Wealth & Health of Nations“, as measured by life expectancy (a measure of a country’s health) vs. GDP per capita (a measure of its wealth):
Recall thatĀ GapMinder shows a time-lapse movie of such scatterplots, showing how this paired data set evolved over the past 200 years. In fact, they produced a video called “200 years that changed the world” in which Hans Rosling, the medical doctor and statistician who created GapMinder, provides commentary on this time-lapse data.
Rosling became widely known through his TED talks. His first one, from 2006, is titled “The best stats you’ve ever seen”
Note that GapMinder has a wealth of data that is available for download.
