September 6, 2018
Guest post from Aidan Eyakuze, Twawezaâs Executive Director Experts say it took just four minutes from beginning to end. First, some sensors failed. Then the pilots lost control of the plane, it stalled, went into freefall and smashed onto the surface of the Atlantic Ocean at a force 35 times greater than that of normal gravity. None of the 228
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Are we measuring the right things? The latest multidimensional poverty index is launched today – what do you think?
June 16, 2014
Iâm definitely not a stats geek, but every now and then, I get caught up in some of the nerdy excitement generated by measuring the state of the world. Take todayâs launch (in London, but webstreamed) of a new âGlobal Multidimensional Poverty Index 2014â for example â itâs fascinating. This is the fourth MPI (the first came out in 2010),
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Creating a splash with Data Diving
August 30, 2013
Over a July weekend in London four charities and more than 80 data professionals took part in a âDataDiveâ, organized by DataKind UK. Ricardo, Richard and Simone from Oxfamâs Research Team (see pic of handsome hunks below) went along. Hereâs what happened. If you came to London for a weekend during the best summer since 1976, how would you like
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Joe Stiglitz addresses ‘the movement’ on well-being v GDP
October 29, 2009
I’m still surrounded by the worldâs statisticians (not as bad as it sounds) at the OECD Measuring the Progress of Societies conference in South Korea, where yesterday Joe Stiglitz gave a great presentation. Rather than simply rehearse the findings of his commissionâs report to President Sarkozy, he reflected on why criticisms of GDP, which have been around for almost as
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How could we measure well-being in a crisis? Some thoughts from Korea
October 28, 2009
I am currently in Koreaâs second city, Busan, attending a big OECD conference on âstatistics, knowledge and policyâ, organized by its âMeasuring the Progress of Societiesâ project. The massive conference centre looks out on a consumerist paradise, including a giant Tescoâs supermarket (everythingâs big here, giving you that sense of suddenly having shrunk that you get in Tiananmen square) and
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Global Poverty is falling, right? Errrm, weâre not entirely sure
December 18, 2008
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