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  • Visualizing Mortality History

    Go watch the vid on the NYT link, it is cool

    Visualizing Mortality History - NYTimes.com


    December 7, 2010, 1:00 pm
    Visualizing Mortality History
    By IAN AYRES

    Hans Rosling, a guru of data animation, is at it again. Here is a very cool video showing 200 years of mortality/wealth progress in just four minutes:

    (HT: Peter Siegelman)

    Ian Ayres is a professor of law and economics at Yale. Follow @freakonomics on Twitter.
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    I noticed that while during WWI there was a massive drop in mortality, but a very subtle, hardly noticeable drop in WWII, especially when focusing solely on the US
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    • #3
      Originally posted by bigross86 View Post
      I noticed that while during WWI there was a massive drop in mortality, but a very subtle, hardly noticeable drop in WWII, especially when focusing solely on the US
      Spanish influenza pandemic
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      • #4
        Yeah, the Spanish Flu killed more people than WW 1.
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        • #5
          I met Rosling in Dhaka in January.
          He's even more energetic presenting in person, and while some of the data he uses can be suspect (but, it is all UN / WB / IMF / etc sourced) the patterns that emerge are amazing.
          Trust me?
          I'm an economist!

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