David McCandless: Odds of dying from blogging?
November 3rd, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Multimedia
It’s 35,000,000 to 1, according to set of graphics from InformationIsBeautiful.net (hat tip to @fionacullinan).
While the blogging comparison might be slightly irreverent (and viewed alongside the very real threat to bloggers in countries with limited press freedom), Google is cited as the source for this stat and the whole set gives some interesting ideas for visualising data.
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