Posts tagged statistics
Daily Chart: how old is your leader? One much-discussed cause of revolution in the Arab world is the age difference between youthful populations and grizzled leaders. Such a gap is common in autocracies but rarer in democracies.
Interesting. I wish they had included Morocco.
The United States of Shame. What is your state the worst at?
This is a great clip from The Joy of Stats, a documentary by Hans Rosling that aired on BBC Four earlier this month. You can also play with the data in an interactive Flash site on Gapminder.
State of the Internet, a motion type presentation by the Jess3 agency of mostly mind-blowing statistics from the big social networks during 2009.
The Decline: The Geography of a Recession
Latoya Egwuekwe put together this eye-opening Flash map showing the rise of unemployment rates since January 2007.
One of 20 posters from The World Of 100 by Toby Ng: a graphical representation of statistics, if the world were a village of 100.
The poster above reads “48 can’t speak, act according to their faith and conscience due to harassment, imprisonment, torture or death.”
Brain Pickings has a great write-up on this project.
