I linked to the TED talks a week or so ago…I finally got around to watching Hans Rosling’s talk showing some extraordinarily powerful data visualisations of stats of fertility rates vs. GDP.
It’s incredibile – some of the most compelling ways to tell real stories with data in an engaging way.
I followed the link to the GapMinder website, where you can download the interactive presentations shown in the video, but even better, I found a link to a version of the toolkit that’s hosted by Google.
It’s absolutely bloody amazing – one of the best things I’ve seen this year…I’ve spent the last ten minutes looking at comparative animations between phone usage and fertility rates in India and the UK, and watched the USA and China’s carbon emissions mapped against their GDP growth over the last ten years.
If only my stats professor in Uni was remotely this interesting, I might have stuck with it!