Lots of sites are showing this clip of Hans Rosling in a new hour-long documentary on BBC called “the Joy of Stats”. The video mixes the same visualization that made him famous in his TED talk, but instead mixed it up with some fake augmented reality displays.
[W]ithout statistics we are cast adrift on an ocean of confusion, but armed with stats we can take control of our lives, hold our rulers to account and see the world as it really is. What’s more, Hans concludes, we can now collect and analyse such huge quantities of data and at such speeds that scientific method itself seems to be changing.
This was excellent. I love the layered concept, in the truest sense of the word.
I see you added a biography since the last time I was here. Good idea!