Max Roser
@MaxCRoser
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Data to understand global problems and research to make progress against them. Founder of @OurWorldInData / Professor at @UniofOxford's @BlavatnikSchool
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Joined June 2012
🔧 New feature: you can now view two maps showing different years side by side! A useful way to look at change over time for an indicator is to view two maps showing different years side by side. Sophia Mersmann, our Senior Data Visualization Engineer, recently upgraded our
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America's two top fast fast chains -- Subway and McDonald's -- are now 100% cage-free. I remember when, in 2007, we thought it was a big win that Burger King agreed to go 5% cage-free. Battery cages, one of the cruelest human inventions, are now firmly on the way out.
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With Full Self-Driving Supervised engaged, you're 7x less likely to be involved in an accident
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For Our World in Data, I've this article on how we can become the first generation that achieves a world in which forests expand — great to see how this looks in practice in a place where this has already been achieved. https://t.co/zdYGIlZ1z5
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Why has humanity destroyed such vast forests? And how can we bring this to an end?
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"The problems are immense, but the solutions are immense too." I loved this short documentary about botanist Hugh Wilson, who spent thirty years protecting and growing a forest in New Zealand. https://t.co/2pFH0vjT68
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We are now looking for a fourth colleague to join our team — a Postdoctoral Researcher at @UniofOxford. It is a great position for a researcher with a broad interest in technology who enjoys carefully building a comprehensive database on technological change. You will be
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A great opportunity to work with our founder, Max Roser, and colleagues at Oxford!
We are now looking for a fourth colleague to join our team — a Postdoctoral Researcher at @UniofOxford. It is a great position for a researcher with a broad interest in technology who enjoys carefully building a comprehensive database on technological change. You will be
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My @OurWorldInData article this week looks at why, after two centuries of progress against the very worst poverty, the world is now facing a future in which progress comes to a halt. The end of progress against extreme poverty? https://t.co/HJ8tppFS7d
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In the last three decades, the world has made progress against extreme poverty faster than ever before. But unless the poorest economies start growing, this period of progress against the worst form...
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This series is all about Common Sense They help kids like I was, growing up w/limited parental guidance They help folks deal w/dysfunctional family members & short life lessons w/actionable steps to find better ways to navigate life Please repost to help more kids Thank you
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We are now looking for a fourth colleague to join our team — a Postdoctoral Researcher at @UniofOxford. It is a great position for a researcher with a broad interest in technology who enjoys carefully building a comprehensive database on technological change. You will be
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My new article is on what I think is one of the worst problems of the years ahead: we are facing the end of progress against extreme poverty.
In the last decades, the world has made fantastic progress against extreme poverty. In 1990, 2.3 billion people lived in extreme poverty. Since then, the number of extremely poor people has declined by 1.5 *billion* people. This means on any average day in the last 35 years,
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We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher to join a new Oxford Martin programme led by renowned innovation scholars: Prof @MaxCRoser, Prof @doyne_farmer & Dr @f_lafond_ Help shape global insights into how technologies evolve. Details: https://t.co/0LXs6Xc3CW
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Hard to find a good place for writing in Madrid! Last week I tried the National Library, two coworking spaces, and the Biblioteca Mario Vargas Llosa. If someone has an idea for a place I should try out next week, please let me know. Thank you!
In the coming weeks I’ll be working from Madrid. I’m still looking for a space to work from. Does someone here have a recommendation for a quiet library or coworking space to work from — ideally roughly in the Malasaña area?
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Over the last months, we’ve entirely rebuilt search on Our World in Data — we just launched it: https://t.co/q2UbccC4UX Let me know what you think. Does it work for you?
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Finding what you’re looking for, or discovering something new, has never been easier.
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In the coming weeks I’ll be working from Madrid. I’m still looking for a space to work from. Does someone here have a recommendation for a quiet library or coworking space to work from — ideally roughly in the Malasaña area?
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Alaska embodies the edge: vast, remote, and unforgiving. It demands technology that works where others can't. @AlaskaDOTPF's drone program reduced their critical decision-making window from 28+ hours to real time. Watch how they're reimagining what's possible with Armada at the
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This is how the median income in the US has grown. From $33.35 to $70 per day, or $2100 per month.
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When people (esp. degrowers) think that median Western incomes are somehow acceptable and that, if inequality were less, we could keep the current global GDP and all live at incomes around the Western median they simply do not know the facts. US median income person is at the
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A big shift in technology. The purple bars show the sales of cars powered by combustion engines in China. In green, you see the rise of electric cars in recent years.
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The Oxford Martin Programme on Forecasting Technological Change uses data to show which technologies will advance, how fast they’ll spread, and what risks they might pose. The Technology Observatory will be hosted by @OurWorldInData. https://t.co/nmJ9RgPpbT
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