A world in motion
March 16, 2007
"we have acquired Gapminder's Trendalyzer software, and we welcome the
Trendalyzer team to Google. Trendalyzer generates moving graphics and
other novel effects in the display of facts, figures, and statistics
in presentations. In its nimble hands, Trendalyzer views development
data-such as regional income distribution or trends in global health-
as literally a world of opportunity. Like Google, Gapminder strives to
make information more useful, and Trendalyzer will improve any
function or application in which data might be better visualized."
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/...in-motion.html

Google Acquires Trendalyzer
March 16, 2007
"Google just announced they've acquired Gapminder's Trendalyzer, a
software that (quote Gapminder) "unveils the beauty of statistics by
converting boring numbers into enjoyable interactive animations." This
Gapminder site already existed on Google's servers for almost a year
now."
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2007-03-16-n43.html

Google snaps up Karolinska stats tool
March 18, 2007
"It began as a teaching aid in a lecture at Stockholm's Karolinska
Institute . Now internet giant Google has bought the rights to the
Swedish statistics tool Trendalyzer."
"Seven years ago, professor Hans Rosling was lecturing his students
when it struck him that statistics were an underexploited resource,
often presented in an incomprehensible fashion. To solve the problem
he developed - along with his son - a new kind of software."
"The result was every software developer's dream: on Friday, Google
bought Trendalyzer for an undisclosed sum."
"But however much Google paid for the software, which presents data in
an easily-accessible, graphic format, the deal has not made Rosling
Sweden's latest IT billionaire."
"Gapminder, the organisation set up to develop the product, is a non-
profit foundation that has been largely funded by public grants."
"the potential of the Trendalyzer software is seen as being enormous.
According to Rosling, public organisations around the world invest 20
billion dollars a year producing different kinds of statistics."
"Until now, nobody has thought of collecting all the information in
the same place. That should be possible with Trendalyzer, which will
be able to present that quantity of data in a clear way as well as
giving the user the ability to compare many different kinds of
information."
http://www.thelocal.se/6725/

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