Hans Rosling looks at colon cancer statistics in this video through his Gapminder data visualization application. Hans shows that rates increase with growing affluence over historical time, and speculates that the culprit is western-style diets. Nonetheless, his data also indicate that rich societies are better able to treat the disease once discovered as deaths due to colon cancer are lower there than in less affluent nations. A free API that can be either used in the cloud or downloaded, Gapminder comes with a number of data sets that permit analyses of many health-related variables, including various cancers.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
cancer statistics via Gapminder
Hans Rosling looks at colon cancer statistics in this video through his Gapminder data visualization application. Hans shows that rates increase with growing affluence over historical time, and speculates that the culprit is western-style diets. Nonetheless, his data also indicate that rich societies are better able to treat the disease once discovered as deaths due to colon cancer are lower there than in less affluent nations. A free API that can be either used in the cloud or downloaded, Gapminder comes with a number of data sets that permit analyses of many health-related variables, including various cancers.
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