I decided I want spend my time in 2008 on more valuable, more relevant, less trivial stuff. As always with good intentions one never knows how long they will stick, but I'm going to give it a try. So let's kick off the year with something less worldly then cracked iPhones ...
A TED video I watched over the Christmas holidays sparked my interest for the Gapminder graphs. Since the beginning of my career I've been making the most sophisticate graphs to try and turn complex data series into one clear and simple image. These Gapminder graphs manage to combine five (yes FIVE!) dimensions into one clear and easy to use graphical representation. Check out this combination and see how Congo (the former Belgian Colony) has been doing over the past decades. I guess we don't really have a lot to be proud of ...
