Gapminder

Gapminder is a non-profit company for
development and provision of free software that
visualize human development.

This is done in
collaboration with universities, UN organizations,
public agencies and non-governmental organizations.
Six software developers are presently working at
Gapminder in Malmö, Sweden.
It all started in 1998 from an idea to enhance the
understanding of world health. They developed
prototype software showing time series of health
statistics as moving graphics and varying life
conditions as 360° photo panoramas from homes,
schools and health facilities.

From the prototype
emerged the Dollar Street project with Save the
Children Fund in Sweden and the World Health Chart
project with WHO. Within the later project Gapminder
developed the free software Trendalyzer that turns
boring time series of development statistics into
attractive moving graphics.

The software imports data
from excel and showing moving graphics on the screen,
as exported Flash files or as images in PowerPoint and
in other formats. Collaboration with United Nations
Division of Statistic and UNDP, started in 2003 with
the aim to visualize fulfillment of millennium
development goals with a World Development Chart
powered by Trendalyzer.


http://www.gapminder.org