{"id":991,"date":"2014-01-12T11:34:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2014-01-12T11:35:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T00:35:39","slug":"gates-graph-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=991","title":{"rendered":"Gates&#8217; graph of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>yoahhhh mumma &#8211; how many dimensions can you fit on a graph:<\/p>\n<header>\n<h1>Bill Gates\u2019s graph of the year<\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h6>BY WONKBORG<\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h6><time datetime=\"2013-12-27T12:03:09+00:00\">December 27, 2013 at 12:03 pm<\/time><\/h6>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"post-content\">\n<p><em>Time has its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/poy.time.com\/2013\/12\/11\/person-of-the-year-pope-francis-the-peoples-pope\/\">Person of the Year<\/a>.&#8221; Amazon has its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?node=7728816011\">books of the year<\/a>. Pretty Much Amazing has its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/prettymuchamazing.com\/feature\/best-mixtapes-2013\">mixtapes of the year<\/a>. Buzzfeed has its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mjs538\/the-40-most-insane-things-that-happened-this-year-in-florida\">insane-stories-from-Florida<\/a>\u00a0of the year. And Wonkblog, of course, has its graphs of the year. For 2013, we asked some of the year&#8217;s most interesting, important and influential thinkers to name their favorite graph of the year \u2014\u00a0and why they chose it. Here&#8217;s Bill Gates&#8217;s.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Infographic by Thomas Porostocky for WIRED.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/files\/2013\/12\/image001-800x742.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"742\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Infographic by Thomas Porostocky for WIRED.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love this graph because it shows that while the number of people dying from communicable diseases is still far too high, those numbers continue to come down. \u00a0In fact, fewer kids are dying, more kids are going to school and more diseases are on their way to being eliminated. \u00a0But there remains much to do to cut down the deaths in that yellow block even more dramatically. \u00a0We have the solutions. \u00a0But we need to keep the up support where they&#8217;re being deployed, and \u00a0pressure to get them into places where they&#8217;re desperately needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Bill Gates is Co-Chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/12\/27\/bill-gatess-graph-of-the-year\/\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/12\/27\/bill-gatess-graph-of-the-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yoahhhh mumma &#8211; how many dimensions can you fit on a graph: Bill Gates\u2019s graph of the year BY WONKBORG December 27, 2013 at 12:03 pm Time has its &#8220;Person of the Year.&#8221; Amazon has its\u00a0books of the year. Pretty Much Amazing has its\u00a0mixtapes of the year. Buzzfeed has its\u00a0insane-stories-from-Florida\u00a0of the year. And Wonkblog, of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=991\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gates&#8217; graph of the year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-data-saving-lives","category-facts-data-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}