{"id":442,"date":"2010-12-31T13:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T21:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deaneckles.com\/blog\/?p=442"},"modified":"2010-12-31T13:18:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T21:18:02","slug":"political-arithmetic-the-joy-of-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deaneckles.com\/blog\/442_political-arithmetic-the-joy-of-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Political arithmetic: The Joy of Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/videos\/the-joy-of-stats\/\">The Joy of Stats<\/a> with Hans Rosling is quite engaging &#8212; and worth watching. I really enjoyed the historical threads running through the piece. I think he&#8217;s right to emphasize how data collection by states &#8212; to understand and control their populations &#8212; is at the origin of statistics. With increasing data collection today, this is a powerful and necessary reminder of the range of ends to which data analysis can be put.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oOOmqHzkkOo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/oOOmqHzkkOo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Like others, I found the scenes with Rosling behind a bubble plot made difficult by the distracting lights and windows in the background. And the ending &#8212; with analyzing &#8220;what it means to be human&#8221; &#8212; was a bit much for me. But a small complaint about a compelling view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Joy of Stats with Hans Rosling is quite engaging &#8212; and worth watching. I really enjoyed the historical threads running through the piece. I think he&#8217;s right to emphasize how data collection by states &#8212; to understand and control their populations &#8212; is at the origin of statistics. With increasing data collection today, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,34,85,41,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-causal-inference","category-health","category-history","category-sociology","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deaneckles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deaneckles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deaneckles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deaneckles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deaneckles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.deaneckles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/www.deaneckles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deaneckles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deaneckles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deaneckles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}