Given the recent hooh-hah about the global human population on Earth supposedly reaching 7 billion, it’s worth taking another look at this great TED talk by the world’s most entertaining statistician, Hans Rosling.
Hans Rosling
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Hans Rosling on why he likes the world’s 8 anti-poverty goals (hint: the MDGs)
Here is the inimitable master of animated information, Hans Rosling, talking about the Millennium Development Goals for yet another one of those TEDxChange events:
Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine
The inimitable master of visual information, Hans Rosling, talks about the upside and the downside of the world washing-machine index (progress that, as always, comes with both a benefit and a cost):
Two centuries of world history in less than 5 minutes
Visualizing the world getting better, thanks to data master Hans Rosling of Gapminder:
Melinda, Hans, Mr. Condom and Graca on TEDxChange
The TEDxChange event, sponsored by the Gates Foundation, was intended to promote public awareness of and support for the Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs.
The TEDxChange event took place while the actual UN MDG summit was underway.
So I decided to try to watch both the TEDx event and the UN webcast of the summit conference in New York.
First, let me just say it was kind of weird to listen at one moment to the President of Israel Shimon Peres talking about the need for peace in the Middle East and then, flipping back to TEDxChange, listen to Thailand’s Mr. Condom (his actual name is Mechai Viravaidya) make jokes about serving hot dogs to promote vasectomies at an event held in a ballroom. (Get it?) Continue reading
Turkey Catches Up With France
Here the inimitable Hans Rosling of Gapminder shows how Turkey’s quality of life is now on par with France: