Seeing Dynamic Data Visualizations in Action: Gapminder Tools

Peter Kovacs (), Klara Kazar () and Eva Kuruczleki ()
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Peter Kovacs: University of Szeged
Klara Kazar: University of Szeged
Eva Kuruczleki: University of Szeged

Chapter Chapter 8 in Statistics for Empowerment and Social Engagement, 2022, pp 179-198 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Citizens need sophisticated ways of thinking in order to understand complex, real social and economic phenomena and to interpret relationships among social and business data correctly. Huge amounts of data, data sources and visualization tools provide an opportunity to illustrate complex relations within real data. At the same time, the misuse of these tools can lead to misinterpretations and in turn perhaps to poor decision making. The Gapminder Foundation has developed several visualization tools (using bubble charts, trend lines, ranks, maps, etc.) in order to facilitate the exploration of complex relationships between variables, to rank countries, and to explore things such as time series, age distributions and income distributions. The goals of this chapter are to: show these different tools in action in classes exploring poverty and the ageing society; to describe their advantages and disadvantages; and to compare.

Keywords: Gapminder; Ageing Society; Poverty; Gapminder offline; Nonlinear relationship; Population pyramids (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20748-8_8

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