Written by: STATISTICA 3/12/2010 11:13 AM
I recently came across Hans Rosling's 2007 TED talk on poverty and statistics. (Video is embedded below.) The talk is entertaining and thought provoking.
Dr Rosling founded a non-profit organization called GapMinder. Their goal is to be:
“fact tank that promotes a fact based world view"
Gapminder is a good source for free datasets. You can download 430 datasets. These datasets cover the world on many different topics. For example:
Bad teeth per child (12 yr) Broadband subscribers Coal consumption, per person Crude death rate (deaths per 1,000 population) Cumulative CO2 emissions (tonnes) Electricity consumption, per person Life expectancy at birth (years) Total number of dollar billionaires
Here is a list of the categories that the datasets cover.
Image Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ciat/ / CC BY-SA 2.0
/Angela Waner, Project Manager
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