Swedish physician and statistician Hans Rosling insisted that facts must be used to guide debates over public policy. This stance is surprisingly rare since most "serious" politicians and pundits make ...

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Gapminder is a dynamic statistics visualization tool that allows you to cross-reference an impressive amount of data provided by the World Bank and UNDP at your leisure, see their evolution over long ...

Editor’s Note: Gapminder Foundation has been testing our knowledge of the state of the world through its Ignorance surveys, today it releases its U.S. results through CNN.com. Read to find out more ...

Google has acquired Swedish non-profit company Gapminder that produces visually attractive graphics to display facts, figures, and statistics in presentations. See the site’s new home page for an ...