{"id":587,"date":"2010-07-21T21:58:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T19:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2010-07-23T16:14:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T14:14:24","slug":"error-in-gapminder-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/error-in-gapminder-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinded by Animation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stopping by at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gapminder.org<\/a>, you will easily get to the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/dCIRfj\" target=\"_blank\">default<\/a>&#8221; example, which shows the scatterplot of life-expectancy vs. income-per-person running through the years 1800 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/d5F3Xf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Gapminder default animation\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusRus.de\/Blog-files\/gapminder1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You really have to look carefully to spot the problem with Russia in 1933. How do we explain a spontaneous drop of life-expectancy from 33 years to only 12 years? This is obviously an error, which was not fixed before the data was released.<\/p>\n<p>It gets quite clear when you look at the time series itself, which you get when you select time to be the x-axis:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bit.ly\/d0fBpN\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Life expectancy for Russia as time series\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theusRus.de\/Blog-files\/gapminder2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apart from the drop in 1933, we also find strange data for the time of WWII. The war apparently has no effect on the life-expectancy at all. Hard to believe &#8211; but this data might just have been &#8220;optimized&#8221; by the political regime.<\/p>\n<p>Once again time to remember Peter J. Huber&#8217;s words: &#8220;Never underestimate the rawness of raw data!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stopping by at http:\/\/www.gapminder.org, you will easily get to the &#8220;default&#8221; example, which shows the scatterplot of life-expectancy vs. income-per-person running through the years 1800 to 2009. You really have to look carefully to spot the problem with Russia in 1933. How do we explain a spontaneous drop of life-expectancy from 33 years to only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theusrus.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}