Thursday, July 12, 2007

Hans Rossling at Ted

New insights on poverty and life around the world- Must see video.

Be sure to watch Emily Oster: What do we really know about the spread of AIDS?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Epic Systems together with Beemode (www.beemode.com) have developed a Data Visualization software "Trend Compass" almost ready to be released soon. It is an extension to Gapminder which was invented by a Swedish Professor. You can view it :

- http://www.gapminder.org

It is a new concept in viewing statistics and trends in an animated way and viewing 4 axis instead of just the traditional X and Y axis. It could be used in analysis, research, presentation etc.

Here are some links :
- A project we did with Princeton University on US unemployment :
http://www.epicsyst.com/main3.swf
A 3 minutes video presentation of above by Professor Alan Krueger Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University :
http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/princeton.aspx?home=1

- US Population from 2004 till 2030 for ages 0 - 83 focus on Baby Boomers and turn the Trails off (uncheck)
http://www.epicsyst.com/Pop/Babyboomer.swf

- April 2008 Media Monitoring on Cars and Beverages TV ads (ads Duration vs Repetition per Day over time) :
http://www.epicsyst.com/ads/cars.swf
http://www.epicsyst.com/ads2/bev.swf

- Ads Monitoring on TV Sattelite Channels during April 2008. Pick Duration (Ads daily duration) vs Repeat (Ads repetition per day).
http://www.epicsyst.com/ads3/allchannels.swf

Next one is my favourite it covers a lot (change the X and Y coordinates) and it accumulates his earnings too, 43 Million USD :
http://www.epicsyst.com/sampras/sampras1.swf

I hope you could evaluate it and give me your comments. So many ideas are there.

You can test the software by uploading data on our website and getting the corresponding Flash charts. This is for a limited number of users.

Regards.

Ossama Hamed
www.epicsyst.com