montanadave
03-29-11, 14:31
Some of you may have seen CNN's special edition of Fareed Zakaria's GPS show entitled Restoring the American Dream: Getting Back to #1 which aired several weeks ago. I thought it was well done and thought provoking, but what really caught my eye was the segment devoted to a historical graph charting national life expectancies and personal income over the past two centuries produced by Han Rosling, a Swedish professor of statistics. Here's a link to the segment:
http://www.gapminder.org/videos/hans-rosling-on-cnn-us-in-a-converging-world/
The gapminder.org website has a variety of other charts, graphs, and data, many of which are interactive and can be individually customized. If some of you are like me, the old adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" becomes even more relevant when doing statistical analysis and looking at long-term historical trends. Cool stuff-- at least to me.
http://www.gapminder.org/videos/hans-rosling-on-cnn-us-in-a-converging-world/
The gapminder.org website has a variety of other charts, graphs, and data, many of which are interactive and can be individually customized. If some of you are like me, the old adage "a picture is worth a thousand words" becomes even more relevant when doing statistical analysis and looking at long-term historical trends. Cool stuff-- at least to me.