One of the issues in learning in an era of information abundance is the need for tools to help visualize data. Examples of this are emerging including Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth andHans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen. Our experiments are more modest, using Google to graph data and share it, below, and in a gadget being built by Corinna Lo in support of our Harvesting Gradebook work. In both the graph below and Lo’s work, data in a Google Doc Spreadsheet is being fed to a dynamic graphing tool that can then be mashed up into another presentation.
Contrast the current data above with the idealized trajectory in this WHO/CDC composite.