Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Hans Rosling on The End of Poverty

Last year I watched a video by Hans Rosling about representing data graphically. His tool developed into Gapminder, which I encouraged people to play check out as a fun tool, and an educational tool.

A friend recently encouraged me to check out TED, which had a more recent talk by Hans Rosling. I couldn't get the video from TED to work, but I found the TED director had also posted the talk on YouTube. Here Dr. Rosling explains why he see the end of poverty:





Dr. Rosling has an interesting way to drive home a point.

The main entry point to Gapminder is here, and Dollar Street is here.


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