This is a five minute video from the BBC, demonstrating visualization of health and wealth statistics from the last 200 years.
Perhaps less important than the substantive message (progress and clear trends toward global equality) is the model of the impact that good visualization can have.
Some ideas for access to justice, using only currently available data:
- Changes in usage of different kinds of ATJ technology over time
- Changes in caseloads with the economy
- Changes in court budgets with the economy
- Legal aid and self-help center caseloads
- Impact of percentage served from technology innovations
Ideas with data that we should be collecting:
- Changes in legal aid service outcomes
- Impact on outcomes of services and litigant attributes
- Impacts on court timeliness of caseloads and budgets
- Impact on court budgets of innovations
Please suggest other ideas for visualization for access to justice.
Here is a one hour video, The Joy of Statistics, from the same guy, Hans Rosling.
Shouldn’t an LSC program apply for a TIG grant to create the capacity to generate these visualizations, perhaps initially using Google Charts if that is powerful enough.
Richard Zorza's Access to Justice Blog 
I love this kind of data analytics with visualization. I am glad you are introducing Hans Rossling to the access to justice community. He has a wonderful presentation on TED that to me is the holy grail of presentin information from a presentation point of view. He makes statistic fun and alive! His Gapminder Foundation have some of their tools available online to download. He originally created a tool and sold it to Google (Google Motion Chart), and so now programs can use the Google tools to analyze their data. They even offer the code for free here:
http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/motionchart.html
I encourage systems that produce data to start experimenting with these free tools and to use data analytics/visualization to see what we can learn. I am also very interested in a tool called Tableu. http://www.tableausoftware.com/ (not free but free 30 day trial).
Maybe some groups that have and collect data can get togehter and figure out how to use these various tools to learn from the past 10 years in the expansion of the legal delivery system.
AMAZING!
I love this blog Richard. It comes up with great stuff and ideas. If you find out how this visualisation is done let me know, if you can. I am asking around!
Best
Richard