Mar 19, 2007

Hans Rosling is a Genius

I'm a huge fan of visualizing data. You can show me piles of numbers and I'll just fall asleep, but Pretty Pictures--now that's what I'm talking about. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a good graph is worth a billion numbers.



Hans Rosling gave a talk at Ted that touches on the visual display of global statistics over time that had me riveted to my monitor. Watch it if you haven't already--it will be the best 19 minutes you spend all week:


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