Animated Globular Statistics
I just want to tie together two ends of an Internet Story. A year and a half ago this TED talk made the rounds:
It’s a supa-neat video; Hans Rosling created some very compelling visualization software with apparent passion. It was noted at the time that his software had been acquired by Google, which made me say “hm, what’s that about?”. Was it for Evil Prognostication? Um, perhaps, but now you can too: they’ve released it as part of their Google Visualization API.
(via Ajaxian and All The Hip Nerd Blogs from a year and a half ago).