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I f you are a 50-year-old white woman, you have a 9.9 percent chance of a cancer diagnosis thus far in your lifetime and a 6.9 percent chance of diabetes. But fast forward 20 years: At 70 your risk for both diseases will roughly double, based on current trends. If you are Hispanic, you'll face different health challenges.
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Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements
This image is a “balloon race”. The higher a bubble, the greater the evidence for its effectiveness. But the supplements are only effective for the conditions listed inside the bubble . You might also see multiple bubbles for certain supps.
Using the Labor Department's local area unemployment statistics , Slate presents the recession as told by unemployment numbers for each county in America. Because the data are not seasonally adjusted for natural employment cycles throughout the year, the numbers you see show the change in the number of people employed compared with the same month in the previous year. Blue dots represent a net increase in jobs, while red dots indicate a decrease. The larger the dot, the greater the number of jobs gained or lost. Click the arrows or calendar at the bottom to see each month of data. Click the green play button to see an animation of the data.
An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country. - By Chris Wilson - Slate Magazine
Reports - Interactive map: 2011’s top schools
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Comparing US states with countries: US equivalents | The Economist
Which countries match the GDP and population of America's states? IT HAS long been true that California on its own would rank as one of the biggest economies of the world. These days, it would rank eighth, falling between Italy and Brazil on a nominal exchange-rate basis. But how do other American states compare with other countries?Revolutions around the World, a data visualization ? mkaz tumbles along
The recent events in Tunisia and Egypt got me thinking about revolutions across history. They tend to cluster together both in geography and time. So being on the current data visualization kick I’m on, it sounded like a fun little project.
CNN.com's "Home and Away" initiative honors the lives of U.S. and coalition troops who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. The extensive data visualization project tells the story of where and how the lives of these troops began and ended. It includes their name, hometown, age, military unit, photograph if available and a narrative of where and how they died. "Home and Away" also includes a place for the audience to share tributes via iReport, CNN's user-generated news community.
Home and Away: Iraq and Afghanistan War Casualties - CNN.com
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Which wealthy nations are helping poor ones most? Rich and poor are linked in many ways. Each year, the CDI scores wealthy governments on helping poor countries via 7 linkages: aid, trade, investment, migration, environment, security, and technology.Interactive: Adversity Index - Business - Eye on the Economy - Stocks & economy - msnbc.com
Login The Adversity Index from msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics measures employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices for 384 U.S. metro areas and all 50 states.
Le Figaro - Conjoncture : La course vers la reprise économique
Dans la course vers la reprise, les pays ne courent pas au même rythme. En Europe, le lièvre, c'est l'Allemagne . Et la tortue, la Grèce.
Click on the mountains to see the source data. | by David McCandless // Flash: Joshua Lee, Phrologue.net | comment Note: While Swine Flu is the cause of at least 18,000 deaths worldwide ( source ), seasonal flu has killed an estimated 375,000 in the same period. ( source )