{"id":624,"date":"2009-03-01T19:33:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T00:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=624"},"modified":"2009-03-01T19:34:24","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T00:34:24","slug":"telling-a-story-with-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/03\/01\/telling-a-story-with-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling a Story with Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who think about how to make your findings relevant in public policy discussions, check out\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/speaker\/0,3438,en_21571361_31834434_33614811_1_1_1_1,00.html\">Hans Roslings&#8217;<\/a> TED Talks.\u00a0 Through his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/\">Gapminder<\/a> application that aminates time series data, Rosling has managed to take abstract numbers and humanize them.\u00a0 A good example is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/downloads\/flash-presentations\/dollar-street\/\"><em>Dollar Street<\/em><\/a> interactive graphics he talks about halfway into his discussion.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><\/param><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/embed\/HansRosling_2007-embed_high.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/HansRosling-2007.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=140\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain that Rosling has had any impact in changing policy discussions, but they are amazing classroom tools.\u00a0 I wish the Obama administration used this type of animated data when it is trying to tell a story about the need for universal health care or addressing climate change.\u00a0 Imagine a one hour prime time special where the administration used these tools for presenting data (minus the swordswallowing at the end of Rosling&#8217;s talk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who think about how to make your findings relevant in public policy discussions, check out\u00a0 Hans Roslings&#8217; TED Talks.\u00a0 Through his Gapminder application that aminates time series data, Rosling has managed to take abstract numbers and humanize them.\u00a0 A good example is the Dollar Street interactive graphics he talks about halfway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[513,1122,1121,1120,1118,1119],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-data","tag-dollar-street","tag-gapminder","tag-numbers","tag-rosling","tag-ted"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}