Hans Rosling's Talk, with Visualizations of World Demographics

Another quick link—I was catching up on my feeds and came across this video of a brilliant talk by Hans Rosling. This guy is a Professor of International Health and currently the director of Gapminder, an organization that promotes global development through better understanding of statistics. They were initially focused on developing the visualization software, Trendalyzer, a project which was taken over by Google.

The talk is both interesting and entertaining. Rosling is a fun speaker and the data he shows is accessible and enlightening. Have a look:

• TED Talks: Hans Rosling

Oh, and he swallows swords, too. Seriously.