Tag: health

  • An inconvenient truth

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    Tom Raftery
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    I watched Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth last night and, I must say, it was very good. Hopefully it will serve as a wake up call to those who dismiss climate change as a myth. Unfortunately though, I think those who watch it will do so because they have an interest in this area…

  • Gapminder.org's incredible data visualisation

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    Tom Raftery
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    One of the revelations for me of the Le Web 3 conference was hearing Prof. Hans Rosling‘s presentation. Everyone I spoke to mentioned his talk as being the highpoint of the event. I checked out Gapminder.org, the site he mentioned where you can access all the data he presented and it is incredible. The interactive…