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A practice problem relating to population growth.
Example Excel Spreadsheet
Additional Resources on Gross Domestic Product ("GDP")
Below are some links to articles about GDP, highlighting the pros and cons of the measurement. At a high level, GDP is a measurement of everything produced in a country's economy. There's a lot more to it than that, so enjoy the reading!
- Gross Domestic Product: An Economy’s All, by Tim Callen, via the IMF
- The Trouble With GDP, via The Economist
- The GDP Is a Flawed But Magical Indicator, by Leonid Bershidsky, via Bloomberg
The next practice you're going
to work on has to do with
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a data set on country populations.
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In the Teacher's Notes, there's
a spreadsheet file that contains data on
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different country's
population levels since 1950.
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The countries in the list
are the top ten countries in terms
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of nominal gross domestic product or
GDP, in 2016,
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according to
the International Monetary Fund.
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GDP is one way of measuring
the size of an economy.
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You can read more about GDP via a link in
the Teacher's Notes if you're curious.
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The practice problem in
front of you is as follows.
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You need to to visualize this data set for
your boss.
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Look at the data set and come up with two
charts that you would show to tell a story
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about the data you are presenting.
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In the next video, I'll show you
what I would do with that task.
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