{"id":416,"date":"2009-05-20T16:43:01","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sju.edu\/blogs\/library\/lifelines\/?p=416"},"modified":"2009-05-20T16:43:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T20:43:01","slug":"international-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/lifelines\/international-data\/","title":{"rendered":"International Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/lifelines\/files\/2009\/05\/gapminder21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-420\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.sju.edu\/lifelines\/files\/2009\/05\/gapminder21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Data and statistics can express a point powerfully and succinctly, if used and presented responsibly.\u00a0 The UN offers a vast amount of data on international issues stretching from economic to health and environmental concerns.\u00a0 Take a look at the UN&#8217;s own data bank for statistics, <a href=\"http:\/\/data.un.org\/\">UNdata<\/a>, that searches across offices and resources and offers a rich collection of 60 million records.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers by themselves tell us a lot, but place them in relational context, and suddenly, with a quick glance you can compare across regions, at the blink of an eye you can pick up on trends.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/\">Gapminder<\/a> is a cool website that allows you to make your own charts with UN data, so dynamic that you can trace the change of your chart over a specific time frame.\u00a0 Go into Gapminder world, choose an x- and y- axis from the drop-down menu, and play around.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll only warn you that it&#8217;s so interesting, you might just get addicted to the data!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data and statistics can express a point powerfully and succinctly, if used and presented responsibly.\u00a0 The UN offers a vast amount of data on international issues stretching from economic to health and environmental concerns.\u00a0 Take a look at the UN&#8217;s own data bank for statistics, UNdata, that searches across offices and resources and offers a &hellip; 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