Comments on: Gapminder http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/04/gapminder.html Technology, leadership, and the future of schools Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:00:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Scott Elias http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/04/gapminder.html/comment-page-1#comment-14792 Scott Elias Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2007/04/gapminder.html#comment-14792 Whoa! What an amazing tool! I would love to have something as interactive as that to share with faculty... Whoa! What an amazing tool! I would love to have something as interactive as that to share with faculty…

]]> By: Steve Poling http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/04/gapminder.html/comment-page-1#comment-14793 Steve Poling Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2007/04/gapminder.html#comment-14793 Very cool, Scott! Nice post. I am going to forward this to our Research and Evaluation Director. He will love it. We are creating the future of data mining and D3M. Very cool, Scott! Nice post. I am going to forward this to our Research and Evaluation Director. He will love it. We are creating the future of data mining and D3M.

]]> By: Kelly Christopherson http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/04/gapminder.html/comment-page-1#comment-14794 Kelly Christopherson Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2007/04/gapminder.html#comment-14794 Scott, great tool. I will be showing my students this as we take a look at Europe, Canada and the Pacific countries. Thanks for sharing1 Scott, great tool. I will be showing my students this as we take a look at Europe, Canada and the Pacific countries. Thanks for sharing1

]]> By: Rich Magee http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/04/gapminder.html/comment-page-1#comment-14795 Rich Magee Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2007/04/gapminder.html#comment-14795 WOW is right! This is quite an interactive tool (with a ton of data sitting behind it). I've already forwarded it to our social studies teachers. And you're right, what if we had a similar, dynamic way to view student data?! WOW is right! This is quite an interactive tool (with a ton of data sitting behind it). I’ve already forwarded it to our social studies teachers. And you’re right, what if we had a similar, dynamic way to view student data?!

]]> By: Glenn E.Malone http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/04/gapminder.html/comment-page-1#comment-14796 Glenn E.Malone Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2007/04/gapminder.html#comment-14796 Had seen this when Rosling showed it on TED Talks...interesting that Google bought into the idea since then. TED Talks is a great source for new and exciting ideas ...thanks Scott for pointing us to it. Had seen this when Rosling showed it on TED Talks…interesting that Google bought into the idea since then.

TED Talks is a great source for new and exciting ideas …thanks Scott for pointing us to it.

]]> By: Matt Horne http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/04/gapminder.html/comment-page-1#comment-14797 Matt Horne Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2007/04/gapminder.html#comment-14797 Wow! The more I play with this, the more different ways I see for organizing the data. What an incredible way for teaching our kids how to visualize data. I see the visualization of data a more and more important skill as we enter these changing times. Even still, when I hear a comment like, "If you are one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you," or "It’s estimated that 1.5 exabytes (that’s 1.5 x 1018) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year," I have a hard time visualizing those statistics. I imagine that what I see in my head when I hear these numbers is different than what you see when you hear them. Wouldn't it be cool if the next generation just visualized these figures naturally in their brains. I think it's coming. Tools like this will help tremendously. We've come a long way from the day that I "ooed" over a pie chart created with some numbers I put into Excel. Wow! The more I play with this, the more different ways I see for organizing the data. What an incredible way for teaching our kids how to visualize data. I see the visualization of data a more and more important skill as we enter these changing times. Even still, when I hear a comment like, “If you are one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you,” or “It’s estimated that 1.5 exabytes (that’s 1.5 x 1018) of unique new information will be generated worldwide this year,” I have a hard time visualizing those statistics.

I imagine that what I see in my head when I hear these numbers is different than what you see when you hear them. Wouldn’t it be cool if the next generation just visualized these figures naturally in their brains. I think it’s coming. Tools like this will help tremendously. We’ve come a long way from the day that I “ooed” over a pie chart created with some numbers I put into Excel.

]]> By: A. Mercer http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/04/gapminder.html/comment-page-1#comment-14798 A. Mercer Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2007/04/gapminder.html#comment-14798 Last night on Women of Web 2.0 had a speaker focusing on visualizing information and data, and had this link to ManyEyes (http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app), an IBM project on data visualization. I think it would be fun to upload NAEP data or the recently published data techonology in schools? The only current data in there is from someone I would call a "closet eugenecist" extrapolating future IQ levels from current NAEP Math scores. Last night on Women of Web 2.0 had a speaker focusing on visualizing information and data, and had this link to ManyEyes (http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app), an IBM project on data visualization. I think it would be fun to upload NAEP data or the recently published data techonology in schools?

The only current data in there is from someone I would call a “closet eugenecist” extrapolating future IQ levels from current NAEP Math scores.

]]> By: Jennifer Dorman http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2007/04/gapminder.html/comment-page-1#comment-14799 Jennifer Dorman Tue, 30 Nov 1999 05:00:00 +0000 http://annahein.com/2007/04/gapminder.html#comment-14799 Shout out to Scott on Cyber Compliment Day for inspiring and teaching so many through his blog. http://cliotech.blogspot.com/2007/04/cybercompliment-day-april-6th.html Shout out to Scott on Cyber Compliment Day for inspiring and teaching so many through his blog.

http://cliotech.blogspot.com/2007/04/cybercompliment-day-april-6th.html

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