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Gapminder is used in classrooms around the world to build a fact-based world view. You'll find shortcuts to tools and guides for Gapminder in a classroom.

Interesting of 'facts' and 'statistics' here - potentially useful, nonetheless, if used carefully.

Great tool for visualizing data

Visualizing data. Includes downloadable tools.

The US isn't falling behind, the world is catching up.

What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.

9 minutes - great to listen to and great to show students the value of good graphics and environmentalism What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading.

Hans Rosling's dynamic work using data to illustrate important points about the human condition and the specie's well-being may already be familiar to you through his TED Talks (which are all available through links on this site), but the tools he provides for instructors amaze me.

this is a great site fro demonstrating visual statistics

data, presentation, visualization, Google, graphs, charts