#gap minder

Hans Rosling, the Swedish statistician who transformed the way we think about development and data, died this week of pancreatic cancer, at the relatively young age of 68. I haven’t got the time to do a proper tribute to him, but Gap Minder, the research group to which he devoted the last ten years of his life, has assembled a…

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    I selected a certain amount of data from the "Gapminder" ,I going to work on the fallowing questions:

Does life expectancy is influenced by the quantity of oil consumed and the quantity of CO2 emitted? 

An update on this course, Passion-Driven Statistics. I have selected the data from Gap Minder to work with during the course. The data consists of health and socio-economic statistics from the countries of the world, and, in some cases, regions. Data includes per capita income, employment rate, and urbanization rates among other stats.

In particular, I am interested in the Polity scores of countries. The polity score is an integer in the range -10 to +10 and measures the level of democracy and free nature within a nation. I want to explore this and possible associations with other variables like the armed forces rate which is defined as a percent of the labor force in the armed forces. I suspect that there is an association though it won't be positive or negative but something more complex.