Toban B. sent us a link to an infographic that included data that put U.S. spending on the military into perspective:
See also this post looking at where our tax dollars go.
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Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
Hans Rosling helps us understand country-by-country carbon dioxide emissions and talks about what we can expect, and hope, from China:
Found at GapMinder.
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Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
Using the same OECD data set that produced this graph on time spent eating and BMI, Floyd Norris at the New York Times brings us a new finding. The “10 countries where people spend less than 100 minutes eating and drinking each day have, as a group, consistently shown higher economic growth than those that took more than 100 minutes to savor their daily repasts.”
As before, the statistics are far from conclusive, but the data continues to invite a discussion about food and culture.
It also invites a discussion of atheoretical data analysis. Last year, Chris Anderson’s article in Wired Magazine (The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete) argued that our ability to generate vast amounts of data, made theory unnecessary, and that scientists were starting to look at correlations as a sufficient analysis level of analysis.
In a NYT blog, Catherine Rampell “plotted out the relationship between time the average person in a given country spends eating and that country’s obesity rate (as measured by the percentage of the national population with a body mass index higher than 30).”
While the blog post is light on details and the statistics are far from conclusive, the chart holds and invites a discussion about food and culture.
Hans Rosling illustrates the increasing urbanization of the world from 1963 to 2004:
Found at GapMinder.
Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
Sloshspot via Flowing Data.
UPDATE: Just FYI, lots of people have identified inaccuracies in this map in the comments.
Found here.
The Guardian is now making all of the data it uses in its stories available for free online. You can browse their data on subjects as wide ranging as imports and exports of plastic bags, reported amounts of exercise, and the best selling singles of 2008 at their Data Store. As one example, I’ve pasted in 20 government financial bail outs as a percentage of their GDP:
