Posts Tagged ‘data’
February 11, 2010
SOURCE: SchuhleLewis.com.
I came across this great infographic on Good and Andrew Sullivan’s blog. Neither actually credited the designer, though. After a little googling, I found them via Fast Company. The designers at Schühle Lewis in the UK created it. There are 59 skulls in the image. Cliff Kuang at Fast Company added a little background to their data:
The health-care study cited in the graphic is concerned mainly with people who die simply because they’re not regularly monitoring their health. But the numbers of people who don’t die because they lack health care–and who take care of their health only when it’s too late, in emergency rooms–is surely much larger. That’s wildly inefficient. Emergency care is extravagantly expensive–and that in turn feeds the spiraling cost of medical care in the U.S.
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Tags: data, health, inequality, infographics, sociology, terrorism
January 25, 2010
Building off the coverage of the Pew Study and a number of articles in the NY Times and elsewhere, the Times hosted a debate yesterday called “Alpha Wives: The Trend and the Truth“ that featured a terrific group of social scientists that included Stephanie Coontz, Kathleen Gerson, Andrew Cherlin, and Claudia Goldin.
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Tags: data, families, gender, inequality, pew research center, social change, sociology, work
January 12, 2010
I must have missed this post on Graphic Sociology over the holidays. Linking to a post by Philip Cohen on the Family Inequality blog, Graphic Sociology highlights why infographics can be misleading when we don’t give more data. Cohen does an excellent job challenging Wilcox’s assertion that the recession has been good for marriage rates by pulling back and showing the divorce rate over the last few decades. In that light, divorces have been trending downward for awhile and have nothing to do with the Great Recession.
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Tags: data, divorce, economics, families, infographics, philip cohen, sociology
December 17, 2009
Lloyd Armstrong offers a detailed analysis of the rising costs of college on his blog, Changing Higher Education. There’s a lot to chew on in Armstrong’s post. The data that caught my attention, though, was his comparison of the growth of household income and tuition prices over twenty years. I was surprised to see tuition out-pacing even the highest quintile of earners in the U.S. Unfortunately, we don’t have data for 2009 yet. I have to think this picture will get even uglier, once he factors in the recent tuition and fee increases.
SOURCE: Lloyd Armstrong
Armstong doesn’t stop w/ this analysis of college costs. He also examines it from the students’ perspective and the colleges’.
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Tags: data, economics, education, inequality, sociology
December 2, 2009
The Global Sociology blog has put together some useful maps on the minimum wage in the U.S.
SOURCE: P.A.P. Blog
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Tags: data, economics, inequality, poverty, sociology, work
December 1, 2009
SOURCE: Guardian Data Blog
(h/t infographic news) The Guardian’s Data Blog posted this infographic showing how much money people earn from the public sector in the UK. It’s a sequel to a table that they posted a couple of weeks ago that looked at overall earnings by job in the UK. I’d love to see an infographic with this sort of data on earnings by job in the U.S.
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Tags: data, economics, inequality, sociology, work
November 19, 2009
Source: Transparency International
Transparency International posted their latest report on the most corrupt countries. On their scale of 10 (zero being the most corrupt), the majority of the 180 participating countries rank a five or higher. Unsurprisingly, the most corrupt countries are:
- Somalia, with a score of 1.1,
- Afghanistan at 1.3,
- Myanmar at 1.4
- and Sudan tied with Iraq at 1.5.
The highest scorers in the 2009 CPI are:
- New Zealand at 9.4,
- Denmark at 9.3,
- Singapore and Sweden tied at 9.2
- and Switzerland at 9.0.
Using this report as a springboard, the Global Sociology blog offers a good summary of a paper by Keith Darden on instutionalized graft. Interestingly, Darden argues that graft doesn’t necessarily represent the breakdown of political institutions. Instead, he writes:
“I argue that graft often serves as a form of unofficial compensation that reinforces rather than undermines the formal institutions of the state and can provide leaders with additional means to control subordinate officials. In sum, despite the deleterious effect that graft may have on democracy and economic development, there are circumstances under which graft may reinforce the state’s administrative hierarchies.”
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Tags: corruption, crime, data, globalization, policy, politics, sociology
October 14, 2009
(h/t Kieran at Crooked Timber). Jeremy describes the troubles he had trying to match up GSS respondents from 2006 and 2008. His conclusion made me chuckle:
In general the experience affirmed a fundamental suspicion I’ve had about analyzing survey data: the data seem so much less real once you ask the same person the same question twice.
The real distinction between qualitative and quantitative is not widely appreciated. People think it has something to do with counting versus not counting, but this is a mistake. If the interpretive work necessary to make sense of things is immediately obvious to everyone, it’s qualitative data. If the interpretative work you need to do is immediately obvious only to experts, it’s quantitative data.
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Tags: crooked timber, data, jeremy freese, research methods, sociology, surveys
