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The Impact of Simplified Data

Well designed graphs have the potential to present complex data in a way that maintains clarity without sacrificing details. The Global Education Project has a site that seems to accomplish this. It shows the relationship between clean drinking water and childhood mortality. It also shows just how far apart the first and third worlds still are. For example it shows that:

More than five million people, most of them children, die every year from illnesses caused by drinking poor quality water.

Here is the link.


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