First responses to DEVTA roll in
In my last post I highlighted the findings from the DEVTA trial of deworming in Vitamin A in India, noting that the Vitamin A results would be more controversial. I said I expected commentaries over...
View ArticleThis beautiful graphic is not really that useful
This beautiful infographic from the excellent blog Information is Beautiful has been making the rounds. You can see a bigger version here, and it’s worth poking around for a bit. The creators take all...
View ArticleFun projects are fun
Jay Ulfelder, of the blog Dart-Throwing Chimp, recently wrote a short piece in praise of fun projects. He links to my Hunger Games survival analysis, and Alex Hanna’s recent application of survival...
View Article(Not) knowing it all along
David McKenzie is one of the guys behind the World Bank’s excellent and incredibly wonky Development Impact blog. He came to Princeton to present on a new paper with Gustavo Henrique de Andrade and...
View ArticleTyphoid counterfactuals
An acquaintance (who doesn’t work in public health) recently got typhoid while traveling. She noted that she had had the typhoid vaccine less than a year ago but got sick anyway. Surprisingly to me,...
View ArticleSlow down there
Max Fisher has a piece in the Washington Post presenting “The amazing, surprising, Africa-driven demographic future of the Earth, in 9 charts”. While he notes that the numbers are “just projections and...
View ArticleThe Napoleon cohort
I’ve recently had to think through two problems related to tracking cohorts over time, and each time I’ve mentally referred back to what is considered by some to be the greatest data visualization of...
View ArticleData: big, small, and meta
When I read this New York Times piece back in August, I was in the midst of preparation and training for data collection at rural health facilities in Zambia. The Times piece profiles a group called...
View ArticleBorn in the year of […]
I was looking for the Kenyan 2009 census data and came across that survey’s guide for enumerators (ie, data collectors) in PDF form, here. There’s an appendix towards the end — starting on page 60 of...
View ArticleHave recent global health gains gone to the poor?
Have recent global gains gone to the poor in developing countries? Or the relatively rich? An answer: We find that with the exception of HIV prevalence, where progress has, on average, been markedly...
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