Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
The role of geography for the prospects of development has been hotly debated the last decade. Economists, like Jeffrey Sachs, have suggested that a country that are situated in the tropics or that are landlocked face a much larger challenge in development, for a number of reasons.
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Google has just launched a new search feature that makes it possible to search and compare public data in an interactive graph. In this first version, data for unemployment, for all US states and districts, are available and the results are very interesting:
Click this link to see and investigate US unemployment rate
Also read Google’s official announcement:
Google Blog: Adding search power to public data
“Roslings värld”, a new television documentary about Hans Rosling produced by the Swedish Television (SVT), will soon air in Sweden. In this portait by the Swedish journalist Pär Fjällström the viewers get to follow Hans Rosling during a few weeks in the end of 2008.
- 200 years of history in 4.5 minutes.
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“This is brilliant, compelling and amazingly well visualized.”
- Is Shanghai healthier than New York? And how do Washington D.C. and Mumbai rank?
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