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Gapminder

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Description

Gapminder is a nonprofit-developed interactive data-visualization and exploration tool that helps learners compare country-level statistics over time.

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  • Gapminder simple interface for exploring open data: Gapminder is a simple interface to open data used by interviewees A and J in their teaching, providing simple ways to compare data about countries over time. The article reports educators "highlighting how simple interfaces to open data, such as Gapminder (2018), were instrumental their work", and Figure 1 shows the Gapminder interface as used by J. It exemplifies the theme of tools that support learning with open data, valued for representing data and guiding discovery, and illustrates how tool choice can simplify and scaffold learning with open data. (Tim Coughlan (2020))

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  • Tim Coughlan. (2020). The use of open data as a material for learning. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-019-09706-y
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title Gapminder
description Gapminder is a nonprofit-developed interactive data-visualization and exploration tool that helps learners compare country-level statistics over time.
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