Alphabet acquired Trendalyzer (Gapminder), a transaction completed in March 2007.
Trendalyzer (Gapminder) operates in Data visualization (later Motion Charts, Public Data Explorer). Google acquired Gapminder's Trendalyzer software, which turns statistical data into animated, moving graphics for presentations. Google planned to improve and expand the tool and make it freely available, applying it to development data such as regional income distribution and global health trends. The Trendalyzer team joined Google to help make statistics more useful and easier to visualize.
Bring interactive, animated data-visualization technology into Google to make statistics more accessible and better visualized, and offer it freely to users.
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.