August 2009
3 posts
In response to Foreign Policy: don't look at...
Foreign Policy published an article, “Think Again: African’s Crisis”, in which Charles Kenny writes, “Africa has seen child mortality fall from 26.5 to 15 percent since 1960 and life expectancy increase by 10 years.”
Although this is true, it’s deeply misleading to look at Africa in isolation. In fact, compared to the rest of the world, Africa lags...
Visualizations We're Watching
Robert Kosara just released a new version of his Parallel Sets visualization app, a focused proof of concept of one visualization type (most popularly seen here with Titanic mortality data). Anything he does is worth paying attention to, and this is no exception.
After talking with him at last month’s OECD conference, I know he’s eager to move beyond “the same old chart types...