bubble charts and gap minder

So here is a super useful tool to visualizing and understanding global statistical trends in disease, poverty, and disparity. Using google motion charts, it makes global data accessible.

You can look at gaps globally, between individual coutnries, and within the U.S.

Some indicators it uses:

- Health (morbidity, mortality, disease prevalence, life expectancy, treatment, etc)
- Poverty (poverty gap ratio, GDP, pop %s)
- forms of government
- employment rates
- im/emigration

they also have ones like : "bad teeth per person" and sugar consumption

CHECK IT: http://graphs.gapminder.org/world/


the animated ones are the best, so you should go to the site, but just so you get the idea, here's one i made:


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