We often talk about trying to find better, more innovative and engaging ways of sharing complex thoughts, ideas and data with large groups of other people. Thanks to Jenna Mandel-Ricci who shared this video in PH 710. The video clip (simlar to YouTube for those of you familiar with that) is a brief (7 minutes, with brief commercials at the beginning and end) presentation by Dr. Hans Rosling, a professor of international health at Sweden’s world-renowned Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a non-profit that seeks to "bring vital global data to life" by developing and distributing free software. Rosling demonstrates some of this software in his presentation about global health, discusses a little about the vision of his non-profit organization, and is clearly energetic and enthusiastic here in this talk, recorded February, 2006 in Monterey, CA. The occasion is The Technology Entertainment Design Conference, also known as TED, an annual conference self-described as "a global community of remarkable people and remarkable ideas." Dr. Rosling sets a new benchmark for us all in terms of presentation of complex data in easy to understand ways.
CLICK THIS LINK TO WATCH THE VIDEO.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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