29 December 2007

Visualizing Human Liberty, Prosperity, and Vitality Worldwide

It's useful to spotlight the different dimensions of Liberty, Prosperity, and Vitality of peoples around our planet. Just a few examples here. First the combination of the UNDP's Human Development Index together with Conservation International's Biodiversity Hotspots...
And Transparency International's Index of Perception of Corruption... And the Heritage Foundation's Index of Economic Freedom compiled together with the Wall Street Journal... And the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business Index (4 colors Dark-to-Light Red then Light-to-Dark Green representing Worst-to-Best)... And the Freedom House Map of Freedom in the World... Finally, the real way to see all these kinds of data is with Gapminder, whose impressario of ideas, Hans Rosling, delivered an impassioned talk at TED 2007 visualizing poverty dynamics worldwide...

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