Google has finalized their acquisition of Gapminder and their Trendalyzer statistical visualization tool, which could easily breath new life into Google Documents, Google Earth or Google Analytics.
Marissa Mayer posts on the Google Blog :
We have acquired Gapminder’s Trendalyzer software, and we welcome the Trendalyzer team to Google.
Trendalyzer generates moving graphics and other novel effects in the display of facts, figures, and statistics in presentations.
In its nimble hands, Trendalyzer views development data—such as regional income distribution or trends in global health—as literally a world of opportunity. Like Google, Gapminder strives to make information more useful, and Trendalyzer will improve any function or application in which data might be better visualized.
See Trendalyzer in action at Google Tools : Gapminder
