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Using gapminder like they do in the video!

Started 1 month ago by dc321 / 5 posts

  1. dc321
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    Hello all -

    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.

    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?

    I am also open to using other programs that will have the same functionality.

    Thanks so much!

  2. nathany
    FlowingData Editor
    Posted 1 month ago #

    nothing comes to mind, unfortunately. i think you'd have to go custom.

  3. dc321
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    Hi Nathan -

    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?

    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?

    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?

    http://flowingdata.com/2009/09/03/what-visualization-toolsoftware-should-you-use-getting-started/
    http://flowingdata.com/2008/10/20/40-essential-tools-and-resources-to-visualize-data/

    Thanks so much. I really appreciate all the work you put into FlowingData. Definitely one of my favorite sites!

  4. nathany
    FlowingData Editor
    Posted 1 month ago #

    Happy to hear it, dc321 :).

    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...

  5. Anonymous
    Unregistered
    Posted 1 month ago #

    Trend Compass does what you need, which is "Drilling data".

    Ossama


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