Hans Rosling on Twitter…
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High income – rare in tropical land-locked countries
The role of geography for the prospects of development has been hotly debated the last decade. Economists, like Jeffrey Sachs, have suggested that a country that are situated in the tropics or that are landlocked face a much larger challenge in development, for a number of reasons.
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“Income per person” revised
We have made a number of revisions of “Income per person”.
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New Google feature: “public data search”
Google has just launched a new search feature that makes it possible to search and compare public data in an interactive graph. In this first version, data for unemployment, for all US states and districts, are available and the results are very interesting:
Click this link to see and investigate US unemployment rate
Also read Google’s official Read more …
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Hans Rosling documentary on Swedish Television
“Roslings värld”, a new television documentary about Hans Rosling produced by the Swedish Television (SVT), will soon air in Sweden. In this portait by the Swedish journalist Pär Fjällström the viewers get to follow Hans Rosling during a few weeks in the end of 2008.
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Two new videos with Hans Rosling
200 years that changed the world
- 200 years of history in 4.5 minutes.
Viewer responses to the video:
“Thanks for posting another thoroughly thought provoking video.”
“This is brilliant, compelling and amazingly well visualized.”
Shanghai, New York, Mumbai
- Is Shanghai healthier than New York? And how do Washington D.C. and Mumbai rank?
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Income per person in Gapminder World
The name of the main income indicator shown when Gapminder World is started has been revised for clarity, but the data remain the same. It is now called “Income per person (GDP/capita, inflation-adjusted $).
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Learn to use Gapminder in the classroom (in Swedish)
Are you a teacher? Do you live in Sweden? We now offer a course on how to use Gapminder materials in the classroom. The course will be in Swedish, takes place in Stockholm on 15-16 of June and the prize is 2800 SEK + sales tax. If more than one teacher come from the same Read more …
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Gapminder starts Newsletter
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HIV-documentation updated
We have made some minor corrections to the documentation of our HIV-data.
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