• DocumentCode
    3192763
  • Title

    Free software for a world in motion

  • Author

    Ronnlund, Anna Rosling ; Rosling, Ola

  • Author_Institution
    Gapminder, Malmo, Sweden
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    29-30 Jan. 2004
  • Firstpage
    14
  • Lastpage
    19
  • Abstract
    This work focus the need for new educational software environments for exploration of global statistics. We present some concrete examples of highly interactive, non-linear, visual displays for explorative understanding of socioeconomic trends in the contemporary world.
  • Keywords
    data visualisation; history; public domain software; software packages; statistical analysis; educational software environment; free software; global statistics exploration; interactive nonlinear visual displays; socioeconomic trends; Distributed computing; Educational institutions; History; International collaboration; Joining processes; Rhetoric; Societies; Software quality; Statistics; Voting;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Creating, Connecting and Collaborating through Computing, 2004. Proceedings. Second International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2166-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/C5.2004.1314363
  • Filename
    1314363