{"id":1673,"date":"2011-08-18T23:12:59","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T04:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"In this inspirational and brilliant discussion, Swedish statistician and professor of global Health, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/hans_rosling.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hans Rosling<\/a> reveals the connections between global life expectancy and the gr"},"modified":"2013-08-19T01:39:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T06:39:51","slug":"amazing-statistics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/spotlight-schedule\/perspectives-from-social-science\/amazing-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this inspirational and brilliant discussion, Swedish statistician and professor of global Health, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/hans_rosling.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hans Rosling<\/a> reveals the connections between global life expectancy and the gross domestic product of different nations.\u00a0 <!--more-->Rosling is using an empirical approach to reveal connections that lie hidden behind massive amounts of data.\u00a0 As you watch this TED talk, consider the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What makes Rosling&#8217;s data so compelling?\u00a0 What other pieces of information would be important to consider in thinking about global health and wealth?<\/li>\n<li>How does the introduction of time (data viewed as increasing\/decreasing year by year &#8211; but viewed in real time) change the way you perceive the data?\u00a0 Is that fair for Rosling to do?\u00a0 Does the motion of data lose any significance because of its animation?\u00a0 If so, what does it lose?\u00a0 What does it gain?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/20146048<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gapminder.org is a web tool developed out of Rosling&#8217;s struggles to visualize global data.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Explore Gapminder World<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><em>Join the Conversation<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>We welcome comments on this or other related topics on the main Spotlight page<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Return to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/spotlight-schedule\/perspectives-from-social-science\/\">Stephen Baldridge&#8217;s Spotlight page<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this inspirational and brilliant discussion, Swedish statistician and professor of global Health, Hans Rosling reveals the connections between global life expectancy and the gross domestic product of different nations.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1687,"featured_media":0,"parent":1460,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1673","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T2tB-qZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1687"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1673\/revisions\/1687"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/cornerstonef13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}