Fascinating site

You know the saying "a picture's worth 1000 words?" Well here's a site that operates on somewhat the same idea. It takes some time to understand, but once you "get" it, it's engrossing.

"Gapminder" takes what would otherwise be dust-dry information and presents it in animated graphs and charts. In an instant, you can see major and minor trends develop, flower, fall back, evolve over time; stuff that would take reams of text or dozens of static charts and graphs to illustrate. It actually makes statistics--- normally a dust-dry topic--- vital and alive.

It's an interesting use of technology, and rather informative, too.

Give it 10 minutes, and see what you think:
http://www.gapminder.org/