I guess most readers of this blog have figured out by now that I am a big fan of graphs and when I found this website it was like being invited into graph heaven. IT allows you to plot a variety of graphs using statistics about many of the countries in the world.
It's really easy to use, just select what you want on the x and y axes and then what metric you want to use to scale the point size and the machine plots a pretty graph. Just be sure to remember the difference between correlation and causation since here we appear to have proved that the internet makes you infertile
(point size proportional to life expectancy)
and here that carbon dioxide saves lives:
(point size proportional to population)
The really fun things happen when you notice that you can animate these plots through time (the little play button at the bottom right) and watch e.g. the income vs. life expectancy evolve for all of the African nations.
This is really good fun and I'd heartily recommend that everybody has a go. If you make anything cool let me know.
It's really easy to use, just select what you want on the x and y axes and then what metric you want to use to scale the point size and the machine plots a pretty graph. Just be sure to remember the difference between correlation and causation since here we appear to have proved that the internet makes you infertile
(point size proportional to life expectancy)
and here that carbon dioxide saves lives:
(point size proportional to population)
The really fun things happen when you notice that you can animate these plots through time (the little play button at the bottom right) and watch e.g. the income vs. life expectancy evolve for all of the African nations.
This is really good fun and I'd heartily recommend that everybody has a go. If you make anything cool let me know.
Labels: graphs, statistics
