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Four charts to understand causes of death across the lifespan: A dataviz walkthrough
The key question I ask myself while making data visualization: What question am I trying to answer?
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Saloni Dattani
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#20: Many great things you missed this year
This week: Birth seasonality, causes of death across the lifespan, progress against HIV/AIDS & cystic fibrosis, very rare infectious form of…
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#19: Seven things you didn't know about life expectancy
Life expectancy is being pushed higher. What does this mean, and what does it tell us about the future?
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Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner (audio recording)
Hundreds of thousands of people die from malaria each year, but it took 141 years to develop a vaccine for it.
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#18: A slice of great things you missed this year
This post: A brain cancer breakthrough, defeating dengue, women's employment, rabies elimination, personality and age, giant virus-like particles, and…
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#17: Why we didn't get a malaria vaccine sooner (bonus content)
This week: How to write a 9,000+ word article, fact-checking and history heuristics, and the path to scientific discovery.
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#16: A fraction of great things you missed this year
This week: Death contours, the twin baby boom, good conversations, music and languages, blood pressure drugs, conspiracy theories, Tasmanian devil…
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