{"id":260,"date":"2010-10-06T20:21:35","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T18:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2010-10-06T20:21:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T18:21:35","slug":"datavizandopendata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joernhees.de\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/datavizandopendata\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful data visualizations and why we need open data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today when I attended a talk at LWA 2010 I remembered a nice talk about beautiful data visualization by Hans Rosling, that I want to share with you (it&#8217;s worth the time):<br \/>\n<!--copy and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param 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might want to invest more time with these:<br \/>\n<!--copy and paste--><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" 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