How has the world changed? This 🧵 compiles many of my plots on, eg., child mortality, fertility, GDP, women's education, and life expectancy. Thanks to @Gapminder for the data! #rstats
First, child mortality has dropped precipitously all over the world. #GoodNewsGraphs (1/N)
First, child mortality has dropped precipitously all over the world. #GoodNewsGraphs (1/N)
The decline in child mortality, plotted against per capita (log) GDP (2/N)
Falling fertility (3/N)
Rising life expectancy (4/N)
Rising women’s education (5/N)
Rising per capita log GDP (6/N)
Per capita log GDP over time, where each dot is a country-year. I realize that this one is not so informative. (6a/N)
Country population (7/N)
Rise in internet usage, plotted against log per capita GDP (8/N)
Rise in cell phones, plotted against log per capita GDP (9/N)
Rise in access to (at least) a basic water source (10/N)
Life expectancy vs. GDP (11/N)
Life expectancy vs. GDP, split by continent (12/N)
Child mortality vs. fertility (13/N)
Life expectancy vs. child mortality (14/N)
Life expectancy vs. child mortality, split by continent (15/N)
Fertility vs. GDP (16/N)
Infant mortality vs. GDP in Africa (17/N)
Infant mortality vs. GDP, split by continent (18/N)
Women vs. men education (19/N)
Women’s education vs. GDP (20/N)
Women’s education vs fertility (21/N)
Falling fertility, split by continent (22/N)
Internet vs. GDP, split by continent (23/N)
Cell phones vs. GDP, split by continent (24/N)
Child mortality vs. fertility, split by continent (25/N)
Another look at falling child mortality (26/N)
Life expectancy over time (27/N)
BONUS: some that do not use Gapminder data. (27a/N)
U.S. public schools (28/N)
U.S. public schools (29/N)
Walmart openings (30/N)
How often babies are born on each day of the week (31/N)
NBA 3-point shooting (32/N)
NBA 3-point shooting (33/N)
Marathon records (34/N)
Tornadoes (35/N)
U.S. national parks (36/N)
Missions (37/N)
In-N-Out Burger openings (38/N)
U.S. colleges (39/N)
Births by year, by age of mother (40/N)
U.S. fertility rate (41/N)
Target store openings (42/N)
NBA winning percentages by score differential at halftime (43/N)
U.S. property crimes (44/N)
Which day of the year babies are born on? (45/N)
@Gapminder To be clear, I don't necessarily think that all of these are "GoodNewsGraphs," but I do think at least most of them are.
