Hans Rosling tells the bare truth about the world today

June 30, 2007

Hans Rosling tells the bare truth about the world today

Hans Rosling has come back to TED to offer some updated insights to the world as it stands today using his superb visualisations of United Nations data. Just one thing, make sure you watch until the end. The very end.

30 Jun 2007 12:30:48 | Creativity, Giving Information, Notes

5 Comments

Fantastic video. What a great presenter and such a clear, obvious and powerful message.

Posted by: Laurie O'Donnell | June 30, 2007 at 06:22 PM

Another great TED talk. My past favourites are Ken Robinson's inspiring education talk and Ze Frank's humourous internet talk. Maybe you'll be there one day Ewan?

Posted by: Funki Jimpow | June 30, 2007 at 11:33 PM

Wonderful presentation, perfectly balances information and humour and what an ending!

Posted by: John Johnston | July 01, 2007 at 11:44 AM

WOW! Now that's what I call a plenary! No one will EVER forget THAT presentation.

Posted by: Drew Buddie | July 01, 2007 at 04:06 PM

Gapminder is awesome. You can find it at http://tools.google.com/gapminder/
I tried it at school and sadly it didn't load. I'll try to find out why.
In the mean time, here's a lesson I wrote a couple of years ago getting students to look for correlations in national statistics.
http://www.ndhs-sites.org.uk/ICT/9.2/intro.htm

Posted by: alex savage | July 08, 2007 at 10:32 PM

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