Here is yet another interesting video from Prof. Hans Rosling :-) From the video: “Believe me, there is nothing boring about statistics, especially not today when we can make the data seen”. For the rest, watch the video … http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/oOOmqHzkkOo?fs=1&hl=en_US Btw, it is also featuring David McCandless whose work was already shown here before. Re- :-)
In the previous post, I shared a video of David McCandless giving a talk about information visualisation. One phrase caught my attention and a bit of research lead to a very good discovery. The phrase and context is (emphasis is mine): We need relative figures that are connected to other data so that we can see a fuller picture, and then that can lead to us changing our perspective. As Hans Rosling, the master, my master, said, " Let the dataset change your mindset". And if it can do that, maybe it can also change your behavior. ...