- Trendalyzer
Trendalyzer is a software for
animation ofstatistics that was initially developed byHans Rosling 'sGapminder Foundation in Sweden and acquired byGoogle Inc. in March 2007. The current beta version is a Flash application that is preloaded with statistical and historical data about the development of the countries of the world and can be accessed at the website http://www.gapminder.org/world.Some components of the Trendalyzer software, particularly the Flash-based Motion Chart gadget, have become available for public use as part of the Google Visualizations API (see http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gadgetgallery.html ).
Similar charts provided by other vendors
* [http://www.microstrategy8.com/DashboardGallery/Dashboards/AnimatedBubble.html MicroStrategy's Animated Bubble Chart]
* [http://www.reportportal.com/Flash/Bubble/Bubble.html Report Portal's Moving Bubble Chart]
* [http://www.smartmoney.com/onebond/index.cfm?story=yieldcurve Smart Money's Living Yield Curve]External links
* [http://www.gapminder.org/world The Gapminder World] , using Trendalyzer to display various statistics about the world's countries
* [http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196602724 Make Your Data Tell a Story] : "Reports, tables, charts and dashboards all deliver information, but information alone isn't understanding"
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