Hannah_OWID

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   Our World in Data (YC W19 Nonprofit) Is Hiring a Front End Developer, Oxford UK

   1 points by Hannah_OWID 8y ago
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   by Hannah_OWID 8y ago

   Yes, you're absolutely right! And actually, much more recently we have been been trying to steer our work towards addressing point (2) you raise above. It became apparent to us, as you say, that most people will find this stuff simply
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   by Hannah_OWID 8y ago

   Thanks so much for this detailed feedback on the website and our design flow. It's really valuable to get an honest critique of how people find using the site. These questions/issues of navigation, landing page, structure are all
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   by Hannah_OWID 8y ago

   Thank you both for flagging this. I agree it's not clear at the moment. We are doing some tweaks on the interactive charts and will make sure to include this labelling.
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   by Hannah_OWID 8y ago

   It's funny that you make these suggestions, because they're all things we're grappling with/considering at the moment. Until now, most of our work has been supply-driven: we write and work on what we think people want to
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   by Hannah_OWID 8y ago

   Thanks for sharing your experiences on this. I hadn't heard of Akvopedia before, so it's new to me. Agree that finding the right solution that sticks: is read by many, consistently kept up-to-date and gets the level so detail corr
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   by Hannah_OWID 8y ago

   Great recommendations. Thanks for the tips. We've found it really useful recently to sit next to someone in person and ask them to navigate. It reveals a lot of unexpected outcomes just by watching them use the site. But of course, in-
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   by Hannah_OWID 8y ago

   The work of Gapminder, and Hans Rosling in particular, was a major motivation for the work we do. In fact, Max worked a lot with Hans Rosling in the past: in this BBC documentary on ending global poverty, for example ( https://www
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   by Hannah_OWID 8y ago

   You're absolutely correct that we need to be very careful to ensure bias does not creep into our work. We take a lot of time to ensure that our work is as objective as possible. Our core activity is to present the data on a given topic
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    by Hannah_OWID 8y ago

    That's great to hear - we're working hard to make sure our work also reaches many of the key people influencing policy initiatives and decisions. That's a great suggestion - we hadn't actually thought of that in the cont
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    by Hannah_OWID 8y ago

    Any really honest feedback on the usability of our website would be the best thing for us. We have lots of content - spanning everything from population growth to plastic pollution, income inequality to cancer rates. This is of course a key
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    Launch HN: OurWorldInData (YC W19 Nonprofit) – Data on World’s Largest Problems

    270 points by Hannah_OWID 8y ago|63 comments