http://forums.flowingdata.com/ Strength in Numbers en Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:22:47 +0000 http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/using-gapminder-like-they-do-in-the-video#post-2501 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:08:54 +0000 frankc 2501@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>A bit late to this post, but StatPlanet Plus enables you to do this, i.e. import your own sub-national data and create motion bubble charts (free desktop version for personal / non-commercial use) </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/using-gapminder-like-they-do-in-the-video#post-1519 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:38:27 +0000 Anonymous 1519@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Trend Compass does what you need, which is "Drilling data".</p> <p>Ossama </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/using-gapminder-like-they-do-in-the-video#post-1500 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:26:53 +0000 nathany 1500@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Happy to hear it, dc321 :).</p> <p>Yes, those posts are still best I advice to give. For scraping, I use Python, but I know a lot of people really like Ruby too. However, if you're already comfortable with Perl, I say just use that. Visualization-wise, those might not be as helpful. For that, go with Flash/Actionscript or Processing, or even javascript. This is all assuming you're Web-based... </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/using-gapminder-like-they-do-in-the-video#post-1491 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:17:15 +0000 dc321 1491@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hi Nathan -</p> <p>Thanks so much for the reply. If I was interested in creating or tweaking graphics like that, what do you think would be the best softwares to look into?</p> <p>Also, do you have any suggestions of what would be good programming languages to use? I used PERL some years back to do webscraping and got fairly technical, but have been told that Ruby is probably a better language to learn these days for that purpose. Would Ruby be helpful for this?</p> <p>More generally, do the below threads still represent your best advice for what languages/tools would be most useful to learn in order to create data visualizations?</p> <p><a href="http://flowingdata.com/2009/09/03/what-visualization-toolsoftware-should-you-use-getting-started/" rel="nofollow">http://flowingdata.com/2009/09/03/what-visualization-toolsoftware-should-you-use-getting-started/</a><br /> <a href="http://flowingdata.com/2008/10/20/40-essential-tools-and-resources-to-visualize-data/" rel="nofollow">http://flowingdata.com/2008/10/20/40-essential-tools-and-resources-to-visualize-data/</a></p> <p>Thanks so much. I really appreciate all the work you put into FlowingData. Definitely one of my favorite sites! </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/using-gapminder-like-they-do-in-the-video#post-1484 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 11:24:40 +0000 nathany 1484@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>nothing comes to mind, unfortunately. i think you'd have to go custom. </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/using-gapminder-like-they-do-in-the-video#post-1480 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:20:04 +0000 dc321 1480@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hello all -</p> <p>I recently started playing with Google Chart's Motion chart which is the same as Gapminder. However, I was wondering if there is a way to look WITHIN a country. </p> <p>For example, Gapminder has millions of year-country specific data. At some point in the video, Hans Rosling clicks on a country and 5 smaller bubbles come out of a country showing the quintiles within a country. Is there a similar way to work with our own data set so that if I want to include subpopulations within a country or other unit that I can do this?</p> <p>I am also open to using other programs that will have the same functionality.</p> <p>Thanks so much! </p>