If you have 4 minutes, you can get the history of the modern world presented to you by Hans Rosling’s YouTube statistical show. He uses holographic infographics to illustrate the “the story of the world” in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just 4 minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine. ~ Source: YouTube
The Population Explosion
Published in March 2011
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Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data. Using a sport’s commentator’s style, he reveals the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine. ~ Source: YouTube.
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