Are prevailing notions of developing and third world nations still valid?
Excellant visualization software and presentation by Hans Rosling at the TED conference that suggests we need to revisit the categories of Developing nation and Third World.
Wow. The visualisation tool really helps to get the point across. But I think that's besides the point. The point was also how we ought to be using data that's available and currently "under-mined" -- at least that's how I saw it. Thanks for highlighting this video.
Yeah I agree with you Ivan. I think that there is a lot of potential with "public data" out there. The problem is that once a form of analysis if preformed on that data, we think tht it's been sufficiently mined. Hans Rosling's Gapminder software really does help us visualize alternative persectives to existing datasets.
On a sidenote, it's interesting to find out that the Gapminder software team has been bought out by Google. Read more about it here: http://www.gapminder.org/
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Wow. The visualisation tool really helps to get the point across. But I think that's besides the point. The point was also how we ought to be using data that's available and currently "under-mined" -- at least that's how I saw it. Thanks for highlighting this video.
Yeah I agree with you Ivan. I think that there is a lot of potential with "public data" out there. The problem is that once a form of analysis if preformed on that data, we think tht it's been sufficiently mined. Hans Rosling's Gapminder software really does help us visualize alternative persectives to existing datasets.
On a sidenote, it's interesting to find out that the Gapminder software team has been bought out by Google. Read more about it here:
http://www.gapminder.org/
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