{"id":129,"date":"2007-07-15T08:57:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-15T15:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/07\/15\/hunger-data-visualization-and-the-value"},"modified":"2007-07-15T17:05:50","modified_gmt":"2007-07-16T00:05:50","slug":"hunger-data-visualization-and-the-value-of-clean-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/07\/15\/hunger-data-visualization-and-the-value-of-clean-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunger, data visualization, and the value of clean hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2007\/07\/oecd_world_forum.html\" title=\"Radar O'Reilly\">Radar O&#8217;Reilly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Another couple of webcasts from our hero, Prof. Hans Rosling of Sweden&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/ki.se\/ki\/jsp\/polopoly.jsp?d=130&amp;l=en\" title=\"Karolinska Institute\">Karolinska Institute<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/faqs\/\" title=\"Gapminder\">Gapminder<\/a> (acquired, inevitably, by Google.)<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/video\/video\/1---health-money--sex-in-sweden.html\" title=\"Health, Money, and Sex in Sweden\">first webcast<\/a>, Rosling using his <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.google.com\/gapminder\/\" title=\"Trendalyzer\">Trendalyzer<\/a> visualization tool to describe economic and social change in Sweden over the past three hundred years.  If he doesn&#8217;t convince you to wash your hands, no one will.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, both the <a href=\"http:\/\/unstats.un.org\/unsd\/cdb\/cdb_help\/cdb_quick_start.asp\" title=\"UN Statistical Database\">United Nations<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/statsportal\/\" title=\"OECD statistics\">OECD<\/a> (announcment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/document\/24\/0,3343,en_21571361_31938349_38883800_1_1_1_1,00.html\" title=\"OECD statistics announcement\">here<\/a>) have committed to opening up their statistical databases free of charge.   In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viddler.com\/explore\/JesseRobbins\/videos\/4\/\" title=\"Viddler -- Hans Rosling\">second webcast<\/a>, Rosling points out, all of the country-level statistical data &#8212; in the whole world, ever &#8212; is a smaller download than &#8220;Lord of the Rings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As before, both are well worth watching, not only for the content of what you learn, but how Rosling delivers the message; it&#8217;s a miracle of data visualization and a heartening message about the possibilities of the future.<\/p>\n<p>(Previous post about Rosling <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2006\/11\/21\/visualization\/\" title=\"Rosling &amp; visualization\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Radar O&#8217;Reilly: Another couple of webcasts from our hero, Prof. Hans Rosling of Sweden&#8217;s Karolinska Institute and Gapminder (acquired, inevitably, by Google.) In the first webcast, Rosling using his Trendalyzer visualization tool to describe economic and social change in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/2007\/07\/15\/hunger-data-visualization-and-the-value-of-clean-hands\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[497,96,1426],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-politics","category-visualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jQA6-25","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}