#IWD Infographic: What Women Want
The UN Foundation worked with Lemon.ly on this infographic summarizing a woman’s day & what she wants. Interesting, but what I want to know is how global data has changed […]
Author Archives: ABM
Selecting the best visual fit for your data
Finding the best fit between the type of chart or graph you use and the data you have is the biggest challenge for data visualizers. Once you have that, refining […]
Infographic Design Tools #1
Infographics are trendy, retweetable ways to communicate data and information, particularly if you have a nice package of quantitative and qualitative data to draw from. Across my data viz listserves, […]
New focus & feel: Communicating Data
To those of you who have been with me since I started this blog when I returned from Kenya a few years back, thank you for the patience you’ve had […]
Taking Responsibility & Taking Names (over at the Gates Foundation)
In one of the most pointed blog posts I’ve read in some time, the Impatient Optimists over at the Gates Foundation ignore all of the passive language that make poverty […]
The return on investment of public health programs
The American Public Health Association just released an infographic highlighting the many ways investing in health programs helps save lives & reduce morbidity. I particularly love that at the bottom […]
A Hippocratic Oath for Humanitarians
My former professor Bill Bicknell (happy guy in the photo) told us to always remember the melon lady. He challenged each student who aspired to work in global health to […]
MDG Gap Report released & UNGA excitement
New report is up from the Millennium Development Goals Gap Taskfoce – you can download it here. The Taskforce monitors global commitments to the MDG’s, and had some interesting (yet expected) […]
Child mortality continues to be on the decline
Today, UNICEF has released their updated child mortality estimates, showing a continued decline in the number of under-five deaths happening annually, to 6.9 million. Pneumonia and diarrhea continue to account […]
Mapping community-based global health programs
There’s a great webcast happening right now on presentations from various experts around mapping community based health programs, as part of an all-day meeting convened by our MEASURE Evaluation project. […]
