19 Dec Visual data: 200 countries over 200 years

Our old friend Hans Rosling, the Swedish public health statistician whose Gapminder software brings demographic trends vividly to life (previous menions here and here), is back with a new BBC video tracking the health and wealth of nations over two centuries:

If you’d like to drill down into the data and watch a particular country’s progress or compare two or three countries, the Gapminder file on which this video is based will let you do that. You can also download the software to your own desktop. Amazing stuff, and should give pause to those who are certain the world is going to hell in a handbasket.

Is anyone plugging Canadian data into these tools?

H/T: Roland McCaffrey.