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StatPlanet Plus v 3.2 has just been released - and with it comes an important new interface component - the Story panel. Through this panel (as the name indicates) you can tell stories with your data. The panel can include HTML formatted text and images, has customizable dimensions, and can be customized seperately for each indicator and time unit. 

See the demo | Download StatPlanet Plus v 3.2

StatPlanet has been named a 2012 Katerva Award Finalist! StatPlanet aims to support non-profit, government, education and research organizations, especially in developing countries, to use their data for evidence-based decision making.

The Katerva Awards shine a global spotlight on the world’s most promising sustainability ideas, identifying the best ideas on the planet for refinement and acceleration toward impact at a global level.

- Frank

 I am excited to announce the release of StatPlanet 3.0 today. Many of the improvements are the result of your feedback. I would like to thank all of you who have helped improve StatPlanet through your useful e-mails and forum posts.

(Updated 17 May 2013). There has been much speculation (and quite a few misconceptions) about the future of Flash in the media with the introduction of Flash to HTML5 conversion tools,  Steve Jobs / Apple rejection of Flash, and Flash support being dropped for mobile browsers (although many of the most popular mobile *apps* are actually Flash-based). This blog post aims to clarify some of these issues. It also compares two tools for converting Flash to HTML5 - Wallaby and Swiffy - and their potential to convert Flash content on the web.

The new website has just been launched and is a significant redesign of the old StatPlanet website kindly hosted for a number of years by SACMEQ. The website name - StatSilk - reflects the expansion of the product line from StatPlanet to other products, notably StatTrends (formerly Graph Maker) and StatWorld. StatWorld is to become an open data portal with world stats on every topic imaginable.

StatPlanet World Bank won first prize in the World Bank's Apps for Development competition! Congrats to all the finalists!