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Cross-posted at Change.org’s Global Poverty blog. There is a big push these days to open up information. Open Government. Open Data. Open Access. Open Source. And now, open global health and development. In January 2010, PLoS Medicine, a peer-reviewed open-access journal, published a commitment from eight major global health agencies to improve health data throughout its life cycle — [...] Great data visualizations can tell a story that, for some, may be lost in tables and text. The New York Times seems to get this. They have a first rate graphics operation. Here is a wonderful graphic of the President’s 2011 budget proposal. The big blocks for national defense, social security, [...] That is how the Boston Globe characterized Edward Tufte’s, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. I found myself engrossed in this book on a recent trip – read it cover to cover while flying from NC to NY and back. But this is not a book one reads just once. It is full of insightful [...] |
I am an Associate in the Poverty, Gender and Youth Program at the Population Council and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Public Health in the New York University Master's Program in Global Public Health. 
 
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