Hosted by Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) there is a great program worth a gander called StatPlanet. StatPlanet is a useful (and under heralded) program that visualizes various maps and graphs in a slick and dynamic Flash-based program. Wait! Don't fear! It is amazingly intuitive and customizable. You heard me right--customizable! It can be run from the internet or as a standalone application. This alone would make focused work with it useful. Did I mention it was free? To add to the temptation, peak at the possibilities:
(from Statplanet)
I am also impressed that it is offered so openly for download as well. It is small enough that it fits on a flash drive and can be run easily on any computer. Since it is already customizable the only thing I would love to see would be plug-in or widget support for the platform. Placing this in a window online within another website would only increase its coverage and usability. This is a rather petty note of mine (admittedly) since the program is hosted online for free but it would still be neat. For the not-as-petty-as-me it is at least worth a check for anyone in social sciences (and more) to go and give it a spin online.
(from Statplanet)
I am also impressed that it is offered so openly for download as well. It is small enough that it fits on a flash drive and can be run easily on any computer. Since it is already customizable the only thing I would love to see would be plug-in or widget support for the platform. Placing this in a window online within another website would only increase its coverage and usability. This is a rather petty note of mine (admittedly) since the program is hosted online for free but it would still be neat. For the not-as-petty-as-me it is at least worth a check for anyone in social sciences (and more) to go and give it a spin online.
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