Hans Rosling Presentation

Part of our assignment this week was to view the video link to Hans Rosling's presentation about data. This was a fantastic video! I took Statistics over the summer and was thinking about all the different ways to graph information and how to interpret the data. This would have been a great addition to that class! So one of the most interesting things to watch in the video is how Rosling has taken data from the 1960's to 1990's and turned them into animations. One of the statistics he used was to see if there was a correlation between small families and longer lives. He used varying sizes of circles to represent populations of countries. The circles moved from the 1960's to 1990's, showing that yes indeed there was a correlation between smaller families and longevity. What was great was seeing the data in motion. He and others have started a "non-profit venture" called Gapminder. Which is software that will link data to animations. What a great way to learn information.