At a time when it appears revealed truths, beliefs and opinions are increasingly privileged in public and political debate,there was always Hans…
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Don’t Panic: How to End Poverty in 15 Years
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Once again, Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institute and co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, reminding us [ with data] just how much development has occurred across the globe in just 200 years.
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Ways of Seeing
Innovative Ways of Seeing: The Art of Social Data
From BIGTHINK.com
In the current issue of Contagious Magazine (subscription required), Noah Brier and Faris Yakob of Naked Communications have prepared a tour de force article about the new age of social (meta)data. Data is no longer just boring old data — it is now a wonderfully fluid and shareable construct that is open to a rich number of interpretations (and re-interpretations).
Prior to Web 2.0, if you mentioned the word “data” to a colleague, you were likely to receive either a blank stare or one of those “please, don’t go there” type of looks.
Now, thanks to pioneers like Jonathan Harris and Hans Rosling, data is a construct that can be celebrated visually through rich infographics and real-time visualization tools. Anyway – if all this is not so clear – the Contagious Magazine article includes a splendid number of visual examples from the likes of Google, Yahoo and Nikon. (And, of course, examples from the great Edward Tufte.)
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Kudos to Noah & Faris for sneaking in an obscure reference to French Deconstructionist thinker
Jacques Derrida at the end of the article: “This blending of signifier and signified is peculiarly modern – words have no real connection to the concepts they represent.” Ah, the joys of modern literary theory, updated for Web 2.0!– dominicbasulto [Endless Innovation]
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Global Health
Our new book on GLOBAL HEALTH is out!!
Is it possible to write a book on the health of all 6.5 billion persons living on the globe? Well we did it and now it is on sale from Monday 27/11 2006.We are six authors, but it was Ann Lindstrand who got it together and Birgitta Rubensson that brought it to print. Hundreds of students read and commented various versions.
We wrote it for those that in a short text want to learn:
-how the health of the world’s population has changed over time;
-how the main determinants of health varied with time and place;
-how health can be measured;
about the causes of the main diseases in the world;
-what health care that exist around the world.Our book is a summary of the works by greater scholars on global health. The pros with our book are the overviews; the cons are the simplifications and errors that are a consequence of our broad ambitions. – Hans Rosling [Hans Rosling]
