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Brain scan: Making data dance | The Economist - 1 views

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  • that it no longer makes sense to consider the world as divided between developing and industrialised countries; and that people everywhere respond similarly to increasing levels of wealth and health, with higher material aspirations and smaller families. “There is no such thing as a ‘we’ and a ‘they’, with a gap in between,”
  • The best measure of political stability of a country, he believes, is whether fertility rates are falling, because that indicates that women are being educated and basic health services are being provided. “
  • Innovation in infographics has always been driven by the need to explain difficult things,
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  • Nightingale’s famous “coxcomb” chart from 1858 demonstrated that improving hygiene in British military hospitals slashed mortality rates. She said its design was intended “to affect thro’ the eyes what we fail to convey to the public through their word-proof ears.”
  • Twenty years later his word-proof students would get something altogether more dynamic than Nightingale’s pie charts to demystify global socioeconomic trends.
  • “It was a conscious intent to make the data look alive,”
  • “Statistics constitute a bulk of information that is surprisingly badly organised,”
  • The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.”
  • “While nothing now can stop the surge to 9 billion, if the poorest 2 billion get improved child survival and the ability to buy bicycles and mobile phones, population growth will stop.
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