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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on June 19, 2013, 12:28:53 PM

Title: How the world's population has changed
Post by: rcjordan on June 19, 2013, 12:28:53 PM
http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2013/06/daily-chart-10

Time to start spamming Nigeria. Oh, wait...
Title: Re: How the world's population has changed
Post by: ergophobe on June 19, 2013, 05:18:18 PM
RC - do you know http://www.gapminder.org/

If you like that Economist page, the above site could cause you to burn a whole day. This is a project driven by Hans Rosling, the guy who gives the amazing demographic/sword-swallowing talks on TED
Title: Re: How the world's population has changed
Post by: ergophobe on June 19, 2013, 05:19:24 PM
PS - thanks for posting that, by the way.

I can't believe how long the US has sat at #3 and I am shocked that Nigeria is the one expected to knock the US to #4. Honestly, it wouldn't have been in my first ten guess.
Title: Re: How the world's population has changed
Post by: rcjordan on June 19, 2013, 07:15:02 PM
>gapminder

And thanks for that. Never heard of it.

Long, long ago in a different world I threw a bunch of links to stuff like that up on an infamously orange & lime site.  It's still there, unattended for years (though with less orange/lime cause drastic/rumbas/torben kept bitching), and it's still sending in a dollar or two a day.  I keep thinking that one day I'll pour some more data through it.
Title: Re: How the world's population has changed
Post by: Drastic on June 20, 2013, 12:18:10 AM
>though with less orange/lime cause drastic/rumbas/torben kept b###hing

That was admiration of the sincerest sort.