GapMinder
I will share with you an applet to talk statistics and data.
"Gapminder was founded in Stockholm on 25 February 2005 by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Hans Rosling. In 2006, Hans gave his first TED talk, called, “The best statistics you’ve ever seen”. It became one of the most watched TED talks ever.
Since its founding, Gapminder has developed several innovative data visualizations. The bubble chart software Trendalyzer was acquired by Google in 2007 and Gapminder’s team moved to Google’s headquarters in California. Whilst there, the team integrated Trendalyzer into Google’s infrastructure, and also improved Google’s search to show better results for global statistics from big data providers." More is here.
We talked about physical vs virtual manipulatives last week. Here is a great example of how physical materials could be used for data visualization. Hans Rosling, founder of GapMinder, both shows data in physical and virtual settings.
Here is Hans Rosling's one of the first TED Talks using Ikea Boxes to show graphics.
An hour long documentary on the Joy of Stats on GapMinder:
Another an hour long documentary that you can watch. Because of the restrictions, I could not embed the video here. But here is the link: https://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-end-poverty/
There are other videos that you may watch. However, please watch all the videos I shared and share your comments on them. Focus on how to use this tool as a teaching tool to teach mathematics, statistics, and integration with other disciplines.
You can use the GapMinder either online or offline at https://www.gapminder.org/resources/
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I didn’t understand Hans Rosling’s words at 8:15. If the survival rate of children continues to increase, how can world population growth stop? Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
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In the 7th minute of the video, he mentioned that if economic growth and family planning are provided then the rate of child survival will increase and family size will decrease. Population growth depends on the economy, education, and family planning. This is why the world population will reach in consistency if they have better conditions for living. Additionally, In the future, if still there will exist poor people, their population will be doubled again and again and the world population will not reach the consistency
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I really like how Hans Rosling states the population growth and related issues. After I watch this video, I do some research. If i understand correctly, in developed countries, a ratio near 2 parents to 2 children mostly exists and developing nations are getting closer as their child survival outcomes continue to improve.
As a result of equalizing health outcomes, low child mortality, and family planning, family sizes go down, and population growth slows in a predictable way. This leads to decrease “absolute poorest people in the world.”
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In the first two videos, Hans Rosling nicely showed the population growth in the world and how the world changed and how changes affected population growth. He also partly presented the tool that he developed, Gapminder. I think it is an interesting tool to investigate the changes around the world with graphs. In addition, about the third video, it was very interesting to learn that LA shares all the crime data, their program that shows crimes commited in every location was looking very detailed.
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I agree with you. It is interesting to share crime data. I heard this application from someone that I follow. I think the crime rate, number of schools, such criteria will affect the rental fees of the regions.
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You are very right.Statistics is not only the part of mathematics, it also includes subjects used for interdiciplinary areas. Therefore, students should be able to make intetpretation about the data in hand
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I agree with you on this, Dilan. In daily life, we can make short-term comparisons without realizing it. For example, when we consider the increase in gold or dollar on an hourly or daily basis, we make a comparison ourselves. Thinking about it in a long-term and more given way makes our job harder. Tools such as gapminder will help us at these points. Such tools will be useful in order to be able to comment on issues such as the climate crisis and population growth, and to show evidence while proposing solutions.
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When I looked at the videos, I learned how useful Gapminder actually is. While Hans Rosling provides information about the world population in the videos, he also introduces the Gapminder tool, thanks to this tool, we can see that the data has changed over the years. In addition, most of the data can be presented to us immediately, and this data can make people’s lives much easier. That’s why I found this tool very useful from an educational point of view. (I also liked the narration style in the videos, it was very interesting that it was colorful
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Let’s say teachers use graphics in Gapminder to teach graph interpretation. Students can make future predictions thanks to dynamic visuals. What kind of dynamic visuals would you use in a lesson? Do you think Gapminder’s visualizations are useful for students?
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Thanks to these videos, I think GapMinder is very useful. Hans Rosling draws attention very well when introducing this tool and interpreting the graph. Using it in lessons in similar ways can be beneficial for students. It can draw students’ attention to the subject and improve their ability to make such graphical interpretations.
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As we always mentioned that context matters so in the video there is a crime example. In San Francisco, sharing information about crimes and the date, time, and neighborhood where the crime took place attracted the attention of the people living in that area and they took initiative to live in a better environment. This is very useful real-life usage of statistics
Also, the data is used to socially equalize citizenship. In the video, he mentioned that statistics started in 1759. Still, most of us do not know how to collect and interpret data, this makes me upset.
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I agree with you, for most people statistics make our life easier, even though they don’t make sense. As you said, sharing information about crimes in San Francisco and the date, time and neighborhood of the crime has guided people in many ways and allowed them to protect themselves. Unfortunately, statistics is not a well-known concept in our country, I think it is necessary to conduct more comprehensive teaching in this field.
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I think one of the amazing things in Gapminder is that we can create dynamic graphs and students have an opportunity to observe and make inferences about what could be in the future or how this data is changed over the years. Therefore, it helps to create the teacher and students more interesting analyzing data environment.
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Yes, this is a good point. Also, it allows to work on useful and interesting contexts, too. When the type of data is appealing, then people are encouraged to think through it and make more realistic comments. This makes a big difference in handling data and its way of being taught.
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Students can collect huge data from anything topic they want. After they are collecting data, they can analyze the data and they can conclude some results with looking data. In this sense, they are not just analyze data or graph, they can have knowledge for many topics. Also, they can connect variables about data and they can find some relations about data. In this sense, students can learn many topics in different areas and they can remember most of the time.
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I wanted to comment on my favorite video from the videos we watched. Hans Rosling’s narrative style and enthusiasm made me want to learn more about the content. It’s really nice to be able to create statistical tables with existing information and comment on the future. For example, we can see from the graphs that the population growth rate is lower, although the births are less than in the past. Research is being done to find the reason for this (child mortality) and the future is being built on it. In this way, I think it contributes to science.
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I think the different kinds of representation of data sends the message to people that they are different from each other, so people think of it all separately and visualize it all separately in their head. This makes it easier to remember.
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I agree with you. Maybe we can use plant diversity of regions in Turkey, or hobbies of students in class as data set and show them with the GapMinder method.
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Absolutely I agree. Especially at secondary school level, it will be more effective to prefer graphics related to Turkey. These students may not be interested in countries they have never heard of before. However showing high school students world-wide charts will broaden their perspective. Recently, I made a presentation on quality education, one of the sustainable development goals. It would be nice to use these graphics as well.
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I really like Gapminder. The fact that Hans Rosling presents what he tells us as visual graphics and the fact that these graphics come in many varieties attracts people’s attention. These graphics are not ordinary graphics, they are dynamic graphics. The fact that it dynamically presents statistics about the general development of the world, population and health, which is important but unknown to people, makes Gapminder an important visual tool.
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I agree with you, I like very much the tool gapminder since it represents data in interesting ways and using dynamic tools.It’s also important to note that predicting future by using data in hand is very important for statistics and students should be able to make inference using data.
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Absolutely I agree. Rosling’s presentation was much more remarkable than ordinary presentations. Multidimensional, changing over time, economic, social, etc. successful in transferring data to people.
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I found the Gapminder app very useful for many things. In these three videos we have watched, he has used many statistical data such as population growth, its relationship with countries, crime distributions very well with the gapminder search. He even showed very well that the wealth and health status of developed countries can be taken as an example for the whole world. A separate fascinating feature was that the data in the application was also integrated with the visual. For example, it was also visually pleasing for the country to show the growth of the population by expanding the shape showing the country. I strongly advocate that this practice be demonstrated and taught in schools. Since I think that studying this data will give a good mathematical analysis ability for every student, even if no activities are held.
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