"Gapminder Desktop is a new application which allows you to use Gapminder World without an Internet connection available. You can:
* Use Gapminder World without the Internet.
* Save a list of your own favorite graphs.
* Update automatically to the latest version."
Fascinating way to dispel myths and stereotypes of all kinds: look at the data. It doesn't lie. It's much easier to see the way Hans Rosling presents it at Gapminder.org
A student on netgened shared this with me based upon his topic "visual data analysis." This is an amazing repository of statistics shown in very cool ways. Great for social sciences.