Two points of some interest to some people:

1. I recently found the Google Gapminder tool. It is amazing. It was featured in one of the TED Talks. Go to the tool's site, and change the X axis to children per woman (fertility to rate), slow down the speed a little bit and click play. You'll notice the entire world, 1st, 2nd and 3rd world countries, move into the upper left corner, signifying longer life expectancy and fewer children per woman. The exception? The entire continent of Africa come 1990. They are by default purple dots. The entire continent will experience a decline in life expectancy. The creator believes this is due to the AIDS epidemic. It's amazing the data that is out there for free.

2. LDS.org will be switching over to the new site design this coming Tuesday between 2 and 3 am. All links to the Gospel Library content will eventually need to be updated (they'll be kind and leave the old links up for awhile). Our sites will have a lot of updating to do. By the way, even if you don't link to LDS.org stuff, there's a great add-on for Firefox called Check Page Links. Every so often I go through our pages and use this tool and it tells me which links are dead, which are alive. You'd be surprised how often content changes places.

Labels: data, gapminder, lds, visualization, webmaster tools