November 26, 2003
Alan Atkinson - Indicators are Reality
Another World Is Here: Indicators Are Reality
Our topic is "Indicators - Global".
The next three websites could feed your statistical curiosity for the next several months. And these are just the free options; if you're willing to plunk down a hundred bucks here and there, you will be happily swimming in data for several years more.
We're talking GDP per capita (see the map - can you tell who's rich?), carbon dioxide emissions, education levels, biodiversity, air quality, AIDS infection rates, teen births ... These are the numbers that reflect the physical and human realities of the world. They are the very definition of big picture.
It's all there for the downloading.
