Tuesday, December 6, 2011

200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 minutes

Watch this extremely interesting video by the famous Hans Rosling, a Swedish Public Health professor. He uses Gapminder, software that he helped design, to model multiple variable statistics over time. Throughout our entire class we have seen data with respect to time using natural logs. In this video, a transparent graph is shown in front of Hosling, labeling the life expectancy on the x-axis and wealth on the y-axis. Instead of incorporating another axis to represent time, the data is shown using a high speed replay to show the divergence and projected convergence concerning wealth and health of 200 countries over the past 200 years. The data is CGI'd into the air where Rosling can pluck and grasp at points as he highlights the significance of specific points in history.

http://www.economist.com/node/21013525

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