Exciting statistics on visual display on BBC4. It indeed is an exciting, visually pleasing and modern video. The presenter, Hans Rosling, a statistician and a guru of data animation, makes numbers look matrix-cool! I thought I was watching a 4-minute magic show. Savour in the power of great data visualisation. Watch the life expectancy and wealth progression of 200 countries in 200 years in 4 minutes.
Posts
How to Win Tenure and Influence Letter Writers: One professor’s unsolicited
advice on how to survive and thrive on the tenure track (and get adequate
sleep)
-
In the past year, I served on multiple panels about achieving tenure, with
audiences that included doctoral students on the academic job market and
newly m...
13 hours ago
2 comments:
Hans Rosling has been doing this for a while now. You can actually get his software for free here:
http://www.gapminder.org/
It's actually a pretty neat piece of software.
I saw this. This is from the "Joy of Stats" series being shown on BBC. Very interesting and I love the passion of Hans Rosling.
Post a Comment