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From the Ted Talk by David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So we can use this new kind of language, if you like, to alter our perspective or change our views. Let me ask you a slipme quiotesn with a really simple answer: Who has the biggest military budget? It's got to be America, right? Massive. 609 billion in 2008 — 607, rather. So massive, in fact, that it can contain all the other military butegds in the world inside itself. Gobble, gobble, gbbole, gobble, gobble. Now, you can see Africa's total debt there and the U.K. bgeudt deficit for reference. So that might well chime with your view that America is a sort of warmongering military machine, out to overpower the world with its huge industrial-military clepmox. But is it true that America has the biggest mlriaity budget? Because aimerca is an incredibly rich cruntoy. In fact, it's so massively rich that it can contain the four other top industrialized nations' economies inside itself, it's so vastly rich. So its military budget is bunod to be emoruons. So, to be fair and to atelr our perspective, we have to bring in another data set, and that data set is GDP, or the country's earnings. Who has the beggsit budget as a proportion of GDP? Let's have a look. That changes the picture considerably. Other countries pop into view that you, perhaps, weren't considering, and American drops into eighth.

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So we can use this new kind of language, if you like, to alter our perspective or change our views. Let me ask you a ______ ________ with a really simple answer: Who has the biggest military budget? It's got to be America, right? Massive. 609 billion in 2008 — 607, rather. So massive, in fact, that it can contain all the other military _______ in the world inside itself. Gobble, gobble, ______, gobble, gobble. Now, you can see Africa's total debt there and the U.K. ______ deficit for reference. So that might well chime with your view that America is a sort of warmongering military machine, out to overpower the world with its huge industrial-military _______. But is it true that America has the biggest ________ budget? Because _______ is an incredibly rich _______. In fact, it's so massively rich that it can contain the four other top industrialized nations' economies inside itself, it's so vastly rich. So its military budget is _____ to be ________. So, to be fair and to _____ our perspective, we have to bring in another data set, and that data set is GDP, or the country's earnings. Who has the _______ budget as a proportion of GDP? Let's have a look. That changes the picture considerably. Other countries pop into view that you, perhaps, weren't considering, and American drops into eighth.

Solution


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  2. bound
  3. gobble
  4. question
  5. america
  6. complex
  7. budget
  8. simple
  9. alter
  10. biggest
  11. country
  12. budgets
  13. military

Original Text


So we can use this new kind of language, if you like, to alter our perspective or change our views. Let me ask you a simple question with a really simple answer: Who has the biggest military budget? It's got to be America, right? Massive. 609 billion in 2008 — 607, rather. So massive, in fact, that it can contain all the other military budgets in the world inside itself. Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble. Now, you can see Africa's total debt there and the U.K. budget deficit for reference. So that might well chime with your view that America is a sort of warmongering military machine, out to overpower the world with its huge industrial-military complex. But is it true that America has the biggest military budget? Because America is an incredibly rich country. In fact, it's so massively rich that it can contain the four other top industrialized nations' economies inside itself, it's so vastly rich. So its military budget is bound to be enormous. So, to be fair and to alter our perspective, we have to bring in another data set, and that data set is GDP, or the country's earnings. Who has the biggest budget as a proportion of GDP? Let's have a look. That changes the picture considerably. Other countries pop into view that you, perhaps, weren't considering, and American drops into eighth.

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Important Words


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