Anecdata. Applied for a UN World Food Program grant this morning and they asked us to re-waffle the humans-vs-earth problem. A URL to your data would have been a neat answer :)
Launch HN: OurWorldInData (YC W19 Nonprofit) – Data on World’s Largest Problems
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#62Your site reminded me one of my favorite charts and tweets of all time, so I want back to look and it was from max at ourworldindata way back in 2017! It's this one: https://mobile.twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/8528130327238574...
Thanks for doing this, I love having big easily accessible data to show people how then world really is.
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#63How about an API?
I'm curious about an API also.
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#64One of the most important metrics is entirely missing: wealth and income, finances are totally missing
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#65Our World Data website is awesome. It is very generous of Hannah, Esteban, Jaiden and Max to make it available and I can only imagine their passion. I represent a specialist area Mental Illness/Psychiatry and have shared this reservoir of knowledge across the globe amongst peers. Importantly it has aided us in our creation of the CAPE Vulnerability Index which is now getting traction across the globe in particular amongst Foreign Aid doners looking for greater accountability for spend to outcomes. Thank you Twitter @geopsychiatry
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#66It would be interesting to see what adding radon would do to the section on air pollution (arguably, radon is a form of air pollution, albeit not particulate).
Since the current estimate in the USA is about 10,000 deaths per year (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2118410), with of course, some dissent (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5590909/), this is large enough to show up on the graph, especially for the developed countries.
Unfortunately, getting good data on radon-related death rates is difficult, as it must be parsed out of lung cancer rates with a number of assumptions applied. I figure that getting good data is in your wheelhouse. If not, I could probably put you in touch with someone at AARST or NRSB who may have better data.
Congrats on the Launch:HN!
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#67Thanks for sharing your findings & datasets, I’ll definitely be following your work. I saw your datasets repo on github, I was curious if any of the raw data or messier bulk data was available?
They seemed to be summarized, or the result of a larger project, vs the structural content.
I did see mentions of using public/gov datasets, but was curious if you had any larger work accumulated?
Definitely not complaining, more curious from a research perspective. Thanks again.
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#68"Facts can be a powerful weapon against fear, a gloomy worldview, learned helplessness". This is so true. However I also notice a frequent and not so helpful use of such data, namely as a way of countering people's legitimate complains about their current state. It is especially concerning when the positive trends are touted as consequences of certain public policies, even when the correlation is questionable. There…
Have any recommendations for good pieces related to this debate you mention? I'm sure there are lots of heated online debates, but any good ones in mind?
The top comment in the thread has the most recent debate I know of.