http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2007/04/01/hans-rosling-at-ted-last-year-on-global-development en-us 40 Anil Madhavapeddy <p>Having coffee with <a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~arb33/">AliB</a> and discussing lecturing reminded me of one of the best presentations I've ever seen: <a href="http://roslingsblogger.blogspot.com/">Hans Rosling</a> at <a href="http://tedblog.typepad.com/">TED</a> and <a href="http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2006/06/hans_rosling_on.html#">debunking myths about the developing world</a>. </p> <p>Even if you're not interested in the subject, it's worth checking out just to see how cool his presentation of otherwise rather boring statistics is. His company, <a href="http://www.gapminder.org/">Gapminder</a> also got <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/03/world-in-motion.html">bought by Google</a> a few weeks ago, so chances are <a href="http://www.google.com/analytics/">Analytics</a> will get more interesting soon.</p> Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:36:00 +0100 urn:uuid:cf2f2652-d247-4d84-97e3-1c8497182747 anil@recoil.org (Anil Madhavapeddy) http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2007/04/01/hans-rosling-at-ted-last-year-on-global-development politics <p>Just as an aside, I read Presentation Zen fairly regularly, which picks up on great presenters and videos of their performances. <a href="http://www.presentationzen.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.presentationzen.com/</a></p> <p>Worth sticking on an RSS reading list.</p> Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:22:53 +0100 urn:uuid:e97b44e5-3d41-463f-8060-4510f787bea8 http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2007/04/01/hans-rosling-at-ted-last-year-on-global-development#comment-615