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Gapminder World: 200 Years That Changed the World
This interactive allows you to view graphs of a variety of things by selecting and comparing bubbles; drag the time slider, zoom in and out and turn trails on/off.
United Nations
United Nations: Millennium Development Goals and Beyond
Learn the eight goals that the United Nations had set forth for the Millennium and read about how we have been doing. There is also a link to a new site where the UN has set seventeen new goals for 2016 and beyond.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Good News of the Decade?
Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up good news: We're winning the war against child mortality. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories. [15:34]