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{ 2011 03 15 }

The Joy of Stats available in its entirety

I’ve been a  fan of Hans Rosling since I saw his first TED video several years ago. Here’s a four-minute clip from a one hour documentary,The Joy of Stats , he did last year for the BBC.

 

Hans Rosling helps visualize economic development over the last 200 years

You can now find the entire video from the BBC by way of Rosling’s Gapminder website. I certainly wish both Rosling and this technology had been available when I was doing my undergraduate degree in statistics. I did have the benefit of excellent teachers, although none quite as gifted as Rosling. As for what the technology makes possible in terms of both extracting and explaining the stories hidden in the data, it is well and truly a brave new world.

Posted by Jim on Tuesday, March 15, 2011, at 12:12 pm. Filed under Resources, Social Impact. Tagged , , , . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

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  1. Greg B | April 25, 2011 at 10:49 am | Permalink

    Very cool video. Amazing technology.

  2. Virtualhse | June 17, 2011 at 7:40 am | Permalink

    Hi,
    Seriously, very nice video with the awesome technology.
    Thanks for sharing this.

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