October 2017

Gapminder in the world

by Josh Horowitz

This entry is a stub, and will be expanded on a future archiving pass.

A Realtalk adaptation of Hans Rosling’s Gapminder, which plots socioeconomic indicators across time for all the countries of the world.

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In Realtalk, the data is out in the table, where everyone can get their hands on it, explore it together, and tell stories that are grounded in facts and data.

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Over time, Gapminder accumulated handcrafted board-game-like physical pieces such as flags, cards, and a bead-on-a-wire slider, but was never more than a few pages of code.

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See also Carnegie library map (2017).

First sketched in as a cartoon in the Dynamicland zine.

Making of.

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