Killing US ~ How We Die vs What We Fear...

Curious how what we die of is only loosely connected to what we fear, write about, and search for...

Minorities & Health ~ Nordenstedt on Metrics

Professor Helena Nordenstedt gives TEDxKTH talk with help of Gapminder visuals on Minorities & Global Health, a framework for better understanding how health and economics go together...

R.I.P. Hans Rosling ~ Edutainer Extraordinaire

Pancreatic cancer has laid low Hans Rosling, the Gapminder co-founder and my favorite public health statistician and data edutainer extraordinaire.  He has many remarkable TED talks and other videos online, but I personally favor his appearance at TEDIndia speaking on Asia's Rise where he compares global growth over 200 years and predicts exactly when India and China converge with the rich!

Rosling @ CGIU ~ A Fact-Based Worldview!

Thanks to TYWKIWDBI for spotting Gapminder's Hans Rosling sharing stats and speaking at CGIU about Pre-Conceived Notions and a Fact-Based World View...

Charting Jobs ~ Flowing Data plots US Statistics...

io9's Ria Misra spots Every Job In America And What It Pays, Charted by Nathan Yau at Flowing Data...

"Who used the new stats from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to create it. Things really get interesting, though, when you start looking at the data not just nationally, but by state."

Global Trendscape ~ Gapminder 2012 Worldview!

Mythbusting statistician Hans Rosling and Gapminder colleagues share their latest visualizations of global data! First, their interactive multi-century perspective on development and convergence...

And second, their Gapminder World Map 2012...

World GDP ~ 2,000 Year Economic Power Chart!

Chart Porn shares World GDP (1-2050) based on Angus Maddison’s GDP dataset plus IMF projections...

Diverse Visitors ~ Feedjit Serves Up Flagscape!

I really like to pop over to Feedjit's Live Traffic Feed on who's visiting Maximizing Progress. Sometimes incredible range of peoples represented! Just this morning in a few minutes...

Italy
Netherlands
Canada
USA
Saudi Arabia
Israel
Germany
Jordan
Norway
Switzerland
India
Malaysia

I love the web!

Stats of Liberty ~ Rosling on Quantifying "Rights"

Swedish gapminder Hans Rosling here addresses the difficulty of measuring progress in Human Rights and Democracy via comparable numerical statistics. He also discusses the loose linkage between estimates for democracy and socio-economic progress, especially calling BS when it's merited...