Our favorite data dramatist Hans Rosling, who we saw present at the MEASURE Evaluation Symposium last month, gave the world (with two other Swedes) the Gapminder tool, which animates potentially dry data into cartoon-like bubbles that shift over time like an effervescent beverage. Bubbles can signify (as with the map at right) country populations, correlated with Gross National Per Capita income and child mortality. China and India are the big red blobs, with most European countries at upper right in orange.
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March 26, 2008 at 5:10 pm
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An intriguing post on the Private Sector Development Blog (PSD) asks social Web enthusiasts to pick a “camp”:
On the one hand, there are those who see Web 2.0 tools as an enhancement of traditional collaboration and outreach capabilities. On the other hand… there are those who believe Web 2.0 is heralding a new business paradigm
The latter view is espoused by Giulio Quaggiotto, the post’s author and PSD’s knowledge and innovation program officer, as being far more intriguing. He writes,
The whole area of managing innovation–traditionally a strength of the private sector–is an obvious starting point.
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Our favorite data dramatist Hans Rosling, who we saw present at the MEASURE Evaluation Symposium last month, gave the world (with two other Swedes) the Gapminder tool, which animates potentially dry data into cartoon-like bubbles that shift over time like an effervescent beverage. Bubbles can signify (as with the map at right) country populations, correlated with Gross National Per Capita income and child mortality. China and India are the big red blobs, with most European countries at upper right in orange.
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