Macroeconomics is rarely the sort of stuff to get entrepreneurs excited. But relevant data, meaningfully presented can yield precious creative insight and can provide validation of evolving trends in externalities. A free, online tool that is quietly aiding such macroeconomic analytics is Gapminder.org. Gapminder provides a simple, graphical interface to view time-series macroeconomic data, that it has garnered from multiple public databases ...
For example, click graphic to view time-series graph of CO2 emissions since 1800s. Each country is represented by a bubble. Size of bubble indicates total population. Other axes are time (X) and CO2 emissions (Y). Scary stuff.
Alternatively, checkout Hans Rosling demonstrating Gapminder.org on TED.com
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