I love it when Google buys something because it is often turned into a freely available resource. This year, Google bought Hans Rosling's Gapminder which he used in his 2006 presentation at TED where he spoke on "Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen".

This is an awesome free tool. Now everyone to be their own statistician. I've had my bit of fun as you can see in the above screen capture: As of 2002, although Singaporeans are getting richer, they are also polluting the environment more as compared to our less well -to-do neighbours.

This is exactly as Rosling said in his talk, we have a skewed perception of reality when we don't examine the data. A lot of people think of Singapore as a clean place compared with Malaysia and Thailand, but the truth is that although the streets may have less little, Singapore is emitting more CO2 per capita than our neighbours.