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How China Cooks Its Books | Foreign Policy
Last October, Vice Premier Li Keqiang said in a speech after inspecting China's Statistics Bureau, "China's foundation for statistics is still very weak, and the quality of statistics is to be further improved"
…My heart’s in Accra » Jennifer Bussell on eGovernment, corruption and governance
in India, corruption is lower in states that have more eGovernment services
…My heart’s in Accra » Mapping a connected world
How many steamships travelled from New York to Pernambuco versus New York to Liverpool? What connections were vital to international commerce and which existed because ships needed a place to dock and refuel?
…My heart’s in Accra » More map lust: global populations in 1890
tiny European states to manage huge swaths of Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, thousands of miles away, tenuously connected by telegraph lines and steamships.
…My heart’s in Accra » Bribery is a two-way street
corruption perception index, cited above, miss the point and punish nations where corruption is openly discussed and combatted
Counting people | Census sensitivity | Economist.com
asked some rather personal questions, such as “How much did you pay for your home?” and “How often do you wash?” But it was the standard ones about the number of residents in each household and their sex and age that provoked the most anxiety.
GOOD Magazine | Goodmagazine - The New Nostradamus
Rise of the Psychohistorians. Except they're political scientists.
Even Better Than The Real Thing
America's Army, the Army's recruitment video game, has been downloaded 17 million times. "It shows we are not robots," explained an Iraq vet who appears as a character in the game. "We're just people." - Ed. LOL!
New software can identify you from your online habits - tech - 16 May 2007 - New Scientist Tech
Microsoft is developing software that could accurately guess your name, age, gender and potentially even your location, by analysing telltale patterns in your web browsing history. - Ed. At the Beijing lab!
Foreign Policy In Focus | China in Africa: It’s (Still) the Governance, Stupid
Over 800 Chinese companies, the vast majority of them state-owned, are operating in 49 African countries.
China Country Profile - Facts, Figures and Analyses
Handy maps generated from statistical yearbooks
A Global Projection of Subjective Well-being: A Challenge to Positive Psychology?
Mongolia happier than China! China happier than South Korea or Japan!
Worldmapper: The world as you've never seen it before
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. 366 maps and PDF posters will be finished by February 2007.
Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
Statistics tend to feel abstract, making it difficult to picture 3.6 million SUVs, or 2.3 million Americans in prison. This project visually examines these vast measures, in large prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
CCTV.com-[法治在线]“平安回家”之合法使用身份证
Slightly misplaced character strokes can give away a fake ID.
G-Econ @ Yale
The current data set (GEcon 1.3) is now publicly available and covers "gross cell product" for all regions for 1990, which includes 27,500 terrestrial observations. GCP is measured at a 1-degree longitude by 1-degree latitude resolution at a global scale.
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