Please add you gapminder example in the comments section.
Describe what you found and share a link to the graph.
Aug 11
GapMinder Results
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- 14/08/2010 - Thanks and Final Survey
- 14/08/2010 - Fourth Group Presentation
- 14/08/2010 - Final Project – English Ivy
- 14/08/2010 - Q’s Concept Map
- 14/08/2010 - Q’s Yodio
I looked at 4 states and child mortality.
http://www.bit.ly/aOr60t
We looked at income per person and total oil consumption in the US, Canada, Brazil, and India.
http://www.bit.ly/cSGiDk
Morgan Steffen
Quentin Johnson
We (Nicholas Lineback and Terence Randall) looked at primary education expenditures per student vs mathematics achievment
http://www.bit.ly/a4ODWA
For our (Christine Dumolin, Sam Tracht, and my) graph, we plotted total urban population per country on the dependent axis and total energy use per country on the indepedent axis. Selected countries are the US, Russia, China, and Bangladesh.
http://www.bit.ly/dl2tjP
Chris Dewan, Mark Bundy, Sara Kuebbing
We compared children per woman and literacy rate of adult women. What we saw was as the literacy rate of adult women went up, the children per woman decreased. We saw this trend across all countries, showing that these two indicators were very tightly correlated.
http://www.bit.ly/culDMx
http://www.bit.ly/ap4SNm
Kristin Morgan and Nicholas Lopes explored the relationship between Female Education and Fertility.
Graph 1: Total Fertility vs. Ratio of Girls to Boys in School
http://www.bit.ly/bvJDkj
Graph: Total Fertility vs. Literacy Rate
http://www.bit.ly/9yy1cY
Here is our group’s work. We examined life expectancy over time, and added the tracking feature. As you can see, in the 1940’s, life expectancy increased exponentally. We hypothesize this is due to the invention of antibiotics.
http://www.bit.ly/bvokrY
http://www.bit.ly/b2w2tz
This is sanitation and malaria cases.
This graph looks at sanitation and malaria cases.
Jonathan Lindsay and Pelagie Favi: Working hours remained consistent amongst the countries except for Japan over the years. However, wages increased to make up for possible cost of living.
http://www.bit.ly/ap4SNm
We found a correlation between All Forms of TB vs. Improved Water Source (% of population with access) in Sub-Saharan nations. We found an especially strong correlation in Namibia.
According to the World Bank, access to improved water source refers to reasonable access to an improved source (i.e. household connection, protected well).
EDIT TO PREVIOUS POST:
Group Members: Holly Saito, Timhkit Berhane and Denise Koessler
Here is our group’s work. We examined life expectancy over time, and added the tracking feature. As you can see, in the 1940’s, life expectancy increased exponentally. We hypothesize this is due to the invention of antibiotics.
http://www.bit.ly/bvokrY
Group Members: Will Jordan and Craig Conner.
We found a correlation with increase in personal computer ownership and energy consumption per person.
Especially evident in the Middle Eastern countries, as more people began using personal computers, their energy consumption per person increased noticeably.
http://www.bit.ly/9McdgR