Monday, September 7, 2009

Hans Rosling - The Best Stats You've Ever Seen

Hans Rosling Ted Talk- Watch more Videos at Vodpod.


Hans Rosling is a Swedish medical doctor and global health expert who developed the software that displays data in a unique and interesting format.

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14 comments:

  1. That was a very insightful video.... =)

    -Forrest
    -Charlena

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  2. Eric and Brittany
    - We thought that the video provided a good exapmle of how statistics and graphs can be used to show global progression and comparassion.

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  3. The gapminder website would be very useful but I doubt the general population would use it to its full extent. It could also put statisticians out of a job.

    Brendan and Janice

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  4. If the chimpanzees are, on average, as smart as the Swedish professors, then how can we be sure that Hans Rosling is actually smarter as well?

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  5. I thought it was a very interesting video and we agree with Hans Rosling's idea to publicize the statistical data. Aarika and Allan

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    Nick Irpino

    The way Hans Rosling displayed his information was very easy to understand and see change throughout the years

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  7. It's interesting to see all of the world's changing data in a new way and how important data is.
    Francisco & Natalie

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  8. Hans had really ccol software that had lots of colors and helped us see the graph.
    Madeline and Emilie

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  9. adverages can be misleading
    and the info would be good to help politicians with foreign diplomatic decisions
    Peter
    Taylor

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  10. We thought it was interesting to know that Statistics could be used to draw social conclusions.
    -Claire and Justin

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  11. the data was presented in an accessible manner. The animation was interesting and entertaining to watch.

    -Chris, Rachel

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  12. He was very passionate about his field. Freely accesible data is an ambitious ambition and would be very useful, but probably would be under-utilized by our age group.

    He had a cool accent.

    -Taylor and Stephanie

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  13. We believe the lecture was interesting because the data changed so much over time.

    Trent and Megan

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  14. The lecture that we watched, was very interesting, because the data was applicable to real life. Also, the fact that the instructor was excited made it enjoyable to watch.

    Matt and rodrigo

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