Gapminder Analysis (artifact 13)

Collaboration with Sabrina Shih
Graph 1: Life expectancy and income (200 years change)
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Graph 2: Does Geography matter
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Graph 3: Smaller families and longer lives
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Graph 1 Analysis:


1800-1850= life expectancy varies up and down, income increases.
1850-1900= Income increases, life expectancy still varies up and down, but overall, it increases.
1900-1950= Year 1918, life expectany drop from 52 years old to 48 years old in a year, probably due to the spanish flu or war. Income continue to increase.
1950-2009= Income and life expectancy increase steadily (directly proportional increasing).


Graph 2 Analysis: 


When we look at 1800- 1850, we can identify that the farthest it is to the north, the faster amount of income per person increases. However, when we keep on looking how the number changes when it reaches year 2000; we would say that Geography does not necessarily matters everything about a cmountry's development. United states is not as far to the north as UK, but at the end it's income per person exceeded Great Britain's.


Graph 3 Analysis:


1800-1850= life expectancy started to increase, the fertility rate still increasee. In year 1849, Life expectancy dropped to 37 years old, and it is thetime fertility rate started to drop a bit. 
1850-1900= Life expectancy varies up and down, fertility rate continues to grow.
1900-1950= In year 1918, life expectancy rate ropped to 40 years old in 2 years, after this, fertility rate inreased a little.
1950-2000= fertility rate and life expectancy continue to increase steadily, does not vary up and down so much.


What have you seen in these graphs that makes you wonder, or ask questions, about events in Britain?
- what happened in 1918? Why does the life expectancy dropped so dramatically this year?
- how is the health care in UK?
- The Geography of UK?

Can you identify key dates/years in the British 19th century where you see a sudden change in the trends?  Do some research to try and find out what caused these shifts, and share what you've found.


- In 1918,  flu pandemic (Spanish influenza) spread across the world. Historical and epidemiological data are inadequate to identify the geographic origin. Most victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to most influenza outbreaks which predominantly affect juvenile, elderly, or weakened patients.,was a bird flu (a type of influenza). It spread through the world killing between 50 million and 100 million people. The flu did not start in Spain. Spain was a neutral country in World War I, and so it did not censor its news. This made nearly all news reports of the disease come from Spain.




Reflection questions:

1) a. What main topic does the artifact relates to? In what way?

ans: It relates to Human health and the advancement of medicine. It relates to it in a subtle way. As the life expectancy rise and fall it might be because of epidemics and improvement of medical treatment.

b. Which other main topic does it also relate to?

ans: I can not think of any other main topics it relates to.

2) Why did you choose this artifact, and how much time did you spend creating and /or processing it?

ans: It took me around 90 minutes to process it. I chose these gapminder topics because I think they are critical to the understand of 19th century Great Britain.

3) What insights and understanding have you gained from the creation and/or processing of this artifact?

ans: How strongly the pandemic of "spanish flu" affected the body politic in Europe, America. More people died compared to World War 1, it is two times the death of WW1.

4) Does this artifact reflect your best work and/or ideas? Why, or why not?

ans: I think this artifact does reflect my best work. Sabrina and I revised the work together and give comments for improvements until we think that nothing else can be changed.

5) Rate this artifact on a scale of -5 to 5 (0 is neutral) for the following four criterion.

a. Impact on the quality of your portfolio. 3

b. Impact on your level of enjoyment and happiness. 4

c. Impact on your learning. 4

d. Level of creativity and Originality. 2

ans: 3

6) Any additional comments.

ans: No comment.