A View From The Cave

Hans Rosling brings data alive once again in his latest released TED talk. This time, he organizes countries by religion and compares the average number of children against the per capita income for each country. Rosling determines that babies decrease per women when: Children survive Many child

A version of this post appeared in the PSI blog. What do Americans think about the role of the US in global health? A Kaiser Family Foundation survey released today sought to answer that question. As you may already know, Americans are terrible at guessing how much of the US budget is spent on fo

An article in Financial Times interviewing the head of UNICEF, Anthony Lake, is meant to be cutting edge, but it shows that Lake is just a tad behind on the times. Here Lake seems to be with the new “randomistas”, who say that to find what works in aid, you need to apply the sort of randomised c

Gallup shares the results of a new poll measuring the approval of Africa's leaders in their home countries. Almost all have positive approval ratings. Of those at the bottom, Wade, Mutharika and Banda are now out of office. The findings in some countries are not likely indicative of true sentiment

The World Bank continues to be one of the leaders in open data and the visualization of that data. I recently came upon the World Bank eAtlas. It takes the data made available and maps the indicators in order to compare countries around the world. In the screen grab above, I searched for the av