Time trends in mortality rates. The rates are for particular places, ages and causes of death. Graphs for 16 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Poland, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands.
Most rates were calculated using data published by the World Health Organization (WHO). WHO is not, however, responsible for any of this website's content.
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A selection of our social bookmarks sorted by category which we believe to be of general interest. If you prefer to look at the complete list, they are available from Delicious.
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MORtrends | Graphs showing trends in national mortality rates
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NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons
Lists, maps and graphics comparing wide range of statistics between countries
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NHS Choices - great coverage of recent health stories in the news
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NHS TOOL | Atlas of risk shows health risks & death rates by age, sex & region
Animated 'riskometer' showing cause-of-death rates either as circles or bars
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Official government data sites around the world | News | guardian.co.uk
London governmet data
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pixelbreaker : SWFObject add-on: MouseWheel on Mac OS
A tool which extends SWFObject to support the Mac mousewheel on OSX. Macs have been missing mousewheel support for flash animations.
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plainview : software : the barbarian group
A Mac presentation tool in the form of a full screen web browser that has
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Planet Science | Sci-Teach
Package of materials for teaching pregnancy risk and spread of sexually-transmitted diseases (although they make a serious and mistake in their probability theory: the final 99% chance quoted is the chance of getting chlaymdia OR getting pregnant, not AND - this is very poor for an educational resource).
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Processing, JSON & The New York Times | blprnt.blg
Sample code from #blprnt
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Projection Point - Risk Intelligence Testing
Web survey of risk intelligence Quotient
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Protovis
A javascript visualization library under development in Stanford. Now looking very good!
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Public health: The hidden menace of mobile phones - Independent Online Edition > Health
Independent article on cancer risk from phones
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Risk Education Statistics
Comparative risk statistics from Health Safety Executive
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Risk-Ed - Risk
Interactive risk education site sponsored by the Institute of Materials, so concentrates on environmental exposures
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Science Team: The public view of uncertainty
group receiving grant for risk communication
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SEARCH RESULTS - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal numbers guy
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Sense About Science
Organisation that promotes public understanding of prominent topics
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SIAM: Moody's Math Challenge
An impressive US competition for high-school students featuring real-world large scale problems. (e.g. Tell us how to fix the Social Security deficit)
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Significance
Royal Statistical Society's popular journal
