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I am now also including media coverage and blog posts about the exchange at the bottom; please tweet me or comment as more cover the story. ...
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Update 1: A post on the discussion/debate on Humanosphere provides a nice summary. World Vision (WV) announced that for the 15th year t...
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The following post is a collaborative effort by Carol Gallo , David Week , and myself. It came from a conversation, which Carol am retells ...
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I am going to toss things that I find interesting up here regarding the election in Kenya. It is by no means comprehensive, so do make su...
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Today's map from the Economist lists how long, on average, leaders have stayed in power for each country in the world.
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Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson finally responded to Jeff Sach's review of their book Why Nations Fail. It in turn led to a spirited...
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Update: This has quickly become my most popular post as a feed in from MetaFilter . It has lead to some really strong reactions. Unfortunat...
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Cracked.com has a post titled 6 Socially Conscious Actions That Only Look Like They Help . One of the listed actions is "volunteering ...
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Vaccines are awesome but this graph is, well... pretty bad. We can't clearly see the impact of the vaccines.
1. The length of the red bars is not proportional to the scale of the epidemic so 580 cases from tetanus occupy the same space as 4.1 million from varicell (sic), not showing the scale of the impact of a vaccine.
2. It is quite difficult to understand what the red bars mean. They use two measures to represent one, the percentage of decrease.
3. The vaccines are in alphabetical order, one of the least useful ordering. It should be by percentage of decrease, or by scale of the epidemic, before or after.
4. The numbers for before and after are far apart and nearly impossible to compare visually, which should be the point of visualizing the decrease.
5. Reading the result for each disease is cumbersome: look up the name in the middle, look at the "before" figure on the left and read it because the bar tells you nothing, then go to the right to read the "after" number.
6. The bars do not share a baseline.
And it goes on. In fact, the design is so bad that I would even doubt the data, especially in the absence of sources and authorship. For such an important topic, it's quite a missed opportunity.
Seems to me there's an opportunity here to do something cool with infogr.am...
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