Hans Rosling, a guru of data animation, is at it again. Here is a very cool video showing 200 years of mortality/wealth progress in just four minutes:
(HT: Peter Siegelman)
Visualizing Mortality History
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If only every teacher was like him…
Great stuff. Everyone should view this. Don’t miss his other pieces on Ted.com.
If ONLY I could slow this up and stretch it out. It exceeds the speed limit for my brain….
Another great video of Mr. Rosling can be seen in this TED talk:
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
Furthermore, this begs the question, can we compare socialism to those who say that the education gap should be fixed by moving resources from top students to under-performing students in that rather than bringing the bottom performers up, you bring the top performers down?
Amazing, great work.
Beautiful. Elegant. Understandable. Provoking.
This incredible ability to fashion information in such a way is one thing that separates the greats teachers from the wannabes.
Truly a master.
I remember years ago standing in the Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, with my jaw on the floor. I had never been exposed to genius before. I realized that even if I had three lifetimes to live, I could not accomplish what he had accomplished–especially in his masterworks.
Same here.
Imagine if one wealthy/healthy country adopted another not so wealthy/healthy country.
Whoa – what European country dropped below the x-axis at ~2:12/1941??