Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks

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With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to debunk several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital global data to life. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA.)

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: January 17, 2007 at 12:15 am
Author: TEDtalksDirector

Length: 00:20:35
Rating: 4.91
Views: 117515

Tags: TEDTalks Hans Rosling Gapminder gapminder.org presentation third_world statistics data mining PowerPoint world_health

Video Comments:
marionbize (September 29, 2008 at 12:45 pm)
What an AMAZING presentation...discovered 2 years ago and still going back to it. Hans, you rock global health's world!!!
petfoodonly (September 21, 2008 at 8:02 am)
Has TED uploaded the same video twice?
b1ngnx33 (September 15, 2008 at 10:50 am)
Excellent. THIS man deserves millions.
FlashFizz (September 7, 2008 at 9:59 am)
Replay the 18:05 mark.

It's interesting how wealth distribution in the U.S. has changed. Wealth among the poorest has remained stagnant while the wealth of the middle class has grown a bit and the wealthiest has begun to break away.

I don't blame an unjust society for this, lots of folks are starting families before acquiring marketable skills while the rest generally choose to only have kids they are likely to afford.
doriansu (August 27, 2008 at 4:54 pm)
What a wonderful lecture! In today's connected world it's inconceivable to me so much information would be hidden, be it on some servers or in old dusty books. We need to liberate the data, but on the other hand, tools that can sift through it all and help us make sense of it are essential. I commend prof. Rosling on his vigor and enthusiasm for taking on some of the biggest challenges of our time.
qwertybaa (August 10, 2008 at 1:32 pm)
Did anybody say that he should speek just English? English isn't my mother's tongue and in everyday life I speak Polish but it's very useful to know some foreign languages too.
Hablo también español
et je parle francais
And I think that is not affecting my Polish at all.
qwertybaa (August 10, 2008 at 1:23 pm)
Awful or not, it's useful to know it. An in a matter of fact it's very easy;)
intrepgun (August 11, 2008 at 1:29 am)
it's only useful to know english if useful information is being conveyed in english and not some other language that you may know.

and as much as english is a very simple language (only 28 letters in the alphabet, etc etc) it's also very limited. and there are constant little fixes made all the time.

it would be better to learn a more complete, more widely used language as opposed to english. that's how i feel about it.

and english is my mother tongue. i added german, dutch, spanish, french
SunriseFusion (September 22, 2008 at 12:11 pm)
thats why its the most useful language in the world, because it adapts. thats basic linguistic evolution.
intrepgun (September 22, 2008 at 2:20 pm)
unfortunately language has actually DEVOLVED since histories earliest records of written language.

languages are computational systems. and we're all born with the same capabilities to learn incredibly complex languages. but instead language has been dumbed down. check out some of noam chomsky's talks on linguistics and genetic predisposition for language either here on youtube or through p2p torrent sites. his books are very enlightening.