— Founder of Our World in Data
— Professor at the University of Oxford
Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them.
Max Roser
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The poorest economies in the world are not achieving economic growth.
The consequence is that progress against the very worst poverty is coming to a halt.
This is one of the worst problems in the world today, but hardly gets any attention.
Max Roser
Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol.
Motherfuckers, we built this:
Most career advice is disappointingly shallow. Which is really tragic, given how important a decision it is.
It's a decision worth reading a good book about.
Ben Todd is the most thoughtful person on career choice I know. He spent 15 years researching it. Now his book is out:
80000hours.org/book/
A way to see the amazing history of economic growth and declining poverty over the last two centuries.
(from the article 'What is economic growth?' ourworldindata.org/what-is-economic-growth)
This is from my article 'The end of progress against extreme poverty?'
ourworldindata.org/end-progress...
here it is: ourworldindata.org/population-simulation-tool
Hey Bluesky hivemind! What are the best data sources for the overall death tolls of wars?
So not just dead soldiers, but also civilians, and deaths from disease and starvation due to the fighting.
Are Necrometrics and Wikipedia as flawed as they seem — or do they actually hold up to some scrutiny?
Congratulations to the data wizards at @ourworldindata.org who created this elegant tool so you can adjust fertility, mortality & migration rates for any country to see the impact on population sizes & age structures.
This is really, really great!! Check it out!! Excellent tool, terrific write up.
