Visualization

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15MAY 2022
Economic Statistics
Propagating Agricultural Tools in the Mao Era
The application of various technologies for plowing, harrowing, sowing and harvesting were propagated as better tools than manual labor particularly in the early years of the PRC. In a very obvious way the superiority of tractors in agricultural production is acknowledged in the image here. While a single peasant can dig up 0.2 mu (1 […]
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24JAN 2022
Economic Statistics
China’s alleged success in poverty alleviation
Absolute poverty is a global problem and its alleviation is set on the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development by the UN. China is said to have reached this goal as early as the end of 2020. President Xi Jinping officially declared in February 2021 that China achieved the eradication of absolute poverty in all its […]
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10JAN 2022
Economic Statistics
Precarious Predictions – how many “ifs” does it take?
On December 4th, The Economist reported the following in an article entitled Omicronomics : If the Omicron variant is more infectious than other strains, it will increase the likelihood of covid-19 outbreaks in China, leading to more frequent lockdowns. If the restrictions were as severe as those […]
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06DEC 2021
Medical Statistics
Soldiers’ woes in a pie
In the early twentieth century, Chinese armies were badly lacking in medical care. The National Revolutionary Army of the Nanjing Government under Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) sought to increase the number of biomedically trained doctors and improve the application of scientific military medicine, including areas such as surgery, inner medicine, hygiene, and epidemic prevention. The […]
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06AUG 2021
Statistical Snippets
It’s all in the scale
From a geometrical point of view, what was published in a collection of statistical data from Shanghai in the first year of the People’s Republic, can not really be called a population “pyramid”. The graph is rather akin to a cylindric accordion. Looking closely at the vertical scale, one will notice that the horizontal bars […]
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19JUL 2021
Statistical Snippets
Visualizing Progress
What can be termed a “statistical procession” took place on May 1st 1955, when workers and technicians from the Second National General Tire Plant 國營第二橡膠總廠 in Qingdao displayed their six-year production of rubber tires from 1949 to 1954. What looks like a linear growth in total production actually corresponds to a highly unstable augmentation rate: […]
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