27 Visualizations and Infographics to Understand the Financial C. I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
If there's anything good that has come out of the financial crisis it's the slew of high-quality graphics to help us understand what's going on. Some visualizations attempt to explain it all while others focus on affected business. Others concentrate on how we, as citizens are affected. Some show those who are responsible. After you examine these 27 visualizations and infographics, no doubt you'll have a pretty good idea about what's going on. Visual Guides to the Financial Crisis Let's start things off with some comprehensive guides to the financial crisis. 2008 Financial Crisis by Carolyn Aler and Sam Conway A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis by Jess Bachman Jess from WallStats put this together for the Mint blog. The Global Finanical Crisis by Cypher 13 Where Did All the Money Go? From Feliciano Rahardjo Looks like the beginning of a comic book. A Closer Look at the Global Financial Crisis by Liam Johnstone The Global Money Mess by Karen Ong.
Page 1: Introduction - 2009 Annual Letter from Bill Gates - Bill. The foundation’s aggressive goals for our health and development work are only realistic because of the basic scientific advances that have been made recently and continue to be made.
Investments in research and development by large governments and private companies drive this rapid increase in understanding of medicine and agriculture. The U.S. National Institutes of Health spend about $30 billion per year on biological research. American pharmaceutical, biotech, and crop science companies spend an additional $60 billion. Genome sequencing is a great example of how research by the private and public sectors can benefit the very poor. Polio is another good example of what can happen when you take innovations that benefit the rich world and apply them in the poor world. Because of that success, in 1988 the world adopted a goal of making polio the second disease to be eliminated, after smallpox. Malaria is a very tricky disease. The Danger of Free - ReadWriteWeb. Everyone loves to get stuff for free.
We line up to get a free drink, we sign up for free checking accounts, and we're happy to get a free gift with the purchase of our next car. We love free stuff, even though we all know and understand that free is an illusion. After that free drink, we pay for the next three. The bank is making money by investing what we put in that checking account. The car dealer can afford to give away a small gift because the profit on the car is large. Marketers long ago figured out the attractiveness of free. Are we heading into dangerous territory? Does Free Make Sense? Most online consumer services today are free. The classic newspaper business is both a subscription service and advertising supported. But this classic model is no more.
The second problem is, of course, Google. When Free is Dirty Eclipse and the surrounding set of tools for debugging, testing and profiling Java code are not great. From Free to an Empire.