Comments on: liberate the UN data! http://laloca.org/archived/5499 stumbling toward sanity Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:36:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Holly http://laloca.org/archived/5499/comment-page-1#comment-7122 Holly Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:33:25 +0000 http://laloca.org/archived/5499#comment-7122 I love it. Although the suspicious PH scientist in me worries of the ease of mis-representing data when it's presented in pretty pictures and bouncing balls... could make it hard to differentiate what is "good" data (and more importantly, good interpretation) and what is crack. Very dynamic and compelling argument for the open use of public statistics! Thanks for the great post. I love it. Although the suspicious PH scientist in me worries of the ease of mis-representing data when it’s presented in pretty pictures and bouncing balls… could make it hard to differentiate what is “good” data (and more importantly, good interpretation) and what is crack. Very dynamic and compelling argument for the open use of public statistics! Thanks for the great post.

]]> By: world health and cool use of animation « collecting tokens http://laloca.org/archived/5499/comment-page-1#comment-7102 world health and cool use of animation « collecting tokens Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:30:59 +0000 http://laloca.org/archived/5499#comment-7102 [...] This is from a pre-test given to Swedish university students by Professor of International Health Hans Rosling of the Karolinska institute, and the answers are given in a lecture that he presented at the TED 2007 conference. Jenny of Baggage Carousel 4 offers up and discusses the video of this lecture, where you can go to get the answer to the questions. The answers are about a minute and a half into the video, but don’t stop watching there. It’s an amazing lecture, and fun to watch, and, as my friend Jenny puts it: even if you couldn’t give a fig about international health and development, rosling shows an amazing, dynamic use of data the likes i’ve never seen before. [...] [...] This is from a pre-test given to Swedish university students by Professor of International Health Hans Rosling of the Karolinska institute, and the answers are given in a lecture that he presented at the TED 2007 conference. Jenny of Baggage Carousel 4 offers up and discusses the video of this lecture, where you can go to get the answer to the questions. The answers are about a minute and a half into the video, but don’t stop watching there. It’s an amazing lecture, and fun to watch, and, as my friend Jenny puts it: even if you couldn’t give a fig about international health and development, rosling shows an amazing, dynamic use of data the likes i’ve never seen before. [...]

]]> By: alejna http://laloca.org/archived/5499/comment-page-1#comment-7091 alejna Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:56:25 +0000 http://laloca.org/archived/5499#comment-7091 Wow. That was incredible. The display of data was amazing. In a very short time, I learned a lot about the way the world has changed, is changing. Are you familiar with <a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/" rel="nofollow">Edward Tufte</a>, by the way? He does books on displaying information. John has his books. I haven't had much time to look at them, but they look really cool. Wow. That was incredible. The display of data was amazing. In a very short time, I learned a lot about the way the world has changed, is changing.

Are you familiar with Edward Tufte, by the way? He does books on displaying information. John has his books. I haven’t had much time to look at them, but they look really cool.

]]> By: Jay Goodman Tamboli http://laloca.org/archived/5499/comment-page-1#comment-7080 Jay Goodman Tamboli Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:18:05 +0000 http://laloca.org/archived/5499#comment-7080 It's very cool. You can see the actual presentation at http://gapminder.org/ It’s very cool. You can see the actual presentation at http://gapminder.org/

]]> By: kgf http://laloca.org/archived/5499/comment-page-1#comment-7078 kgf Wed, 21 Mar 2007 19:01:51 +0000 http://laloca.org/archived/5499#comment-7078 heh heh. btw, it was the Census Bureau. heh heh. btw, it was the Census Bureau.

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