Stop press: Google bought Gapminder yesterday. Thanks Patchwork Planet. Still no sign of any good Ag data though.
Google has started hosting Gapminder, a wonderful tool for visualizing development data developed by a Swedish NGO. Here’s an example of what you can do with it. Worth playing around with. But to see a master at work, check this out. There are only a few variables at the moment, but wouldn’t it be great if one day the data in FAOSTAT were to be added? Anyone want to volunteer to do the mash-up?
You’re welcome.
small correction: Google bought Gapminder’s software.
I was a little quick in the update of my post.
Gapminder is the name of the sweedish NGO.
The software acquired by google is called Trendalyzer (cool name ;-)