A different form of verifiability?
— Jason
I made a flow chart, that we might better understand.
Once upon a time I was falling in love, and now I’m only falling apart.
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 considerably on child mortality:
(If you click on the picture to open an interactive version you can play with the data yourself).
If the big story is that child mortality is declining due to new technologies and medicine then why is Africa lagging?
Given the degree of improvement in the rest of the world, these small gains in Africa are a crime, not a victory.
- Jason Y., Verifiable.com
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 we’ve seen for the past sixty years”, and to inspire new and better visualizations in end-user tools like ours. Take a look, and let us know if this is something you’d find useful on Verifiable.
- Peter C., Verifiable.com
