With the dramatic performance and urgency of a sports narrator, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses a new presentation tool, Gapminder, to dispel myths in the development of humanity. It is a sensational talk of scope and depth relevant to understanding the world we live in. Rosling is a professor of international health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute University, and co-founder of Gapminder, a tool that brings data to life. From TED.
In partnership with Google, you can find a sensational site to see the world at your own pace and to your own liking, with a number of variables on each axis. Literally to play with for a while at https://tools.google.com/gapminder . What I did was to play iTunes in the background with music to my liking, and then set out for a while to visualize this planet with Rosling’s data and tool. It was a totally sisomo (sight, sound and motion) experience. Make a copy of this address and put it in your browser: http: //tools.google.com/gapminder