Great presentation – watch Hans Rosling on national income and health
This afternoon I’ve been following some of the tweets from the AAAS annual meeting.* One of the four speakers in the science communication plenary panel ’Science is not enough’ was Hans Rosling.** Judging from the tweets praising his presentation he seems to have earned many more fans.***
Below is the the first YouTube presentation of his I encountered, illustrating dynamically the change in national income and health from 1810 until 2009 for about 200 nations.
I love how it’s presented. It exploits the dynamic visuals so well. I’m also late coming to this – it already has over 5 million views.
Footnotes
* AAAS = American Association for the Advancement of Science.
** Professor of International Health at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. (The institute also has one of the shortest URLs I’ve seen, ki.se)
*** I’ll check later if/when the plenary panel has become available on YouTube.
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3 Responses to “Great presentation – watch Hans Rosling on national income and health”
Close, but it is Karolinska Institute,* Karolina/Carolina are common swedish names.
Thanks for the tip, I’m slowly making my way into the data illuminated world of Rosling.
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* It started out as a military surgeon academy, and Karoliner was what the soldiers under the war kings Karl XI & XII were called.
Yes, quite right, thanks for pointing the typo out. The snippet of history is welcome too!
Thanks Grant. Hans Rosling is great – he has done some fascinating TED presentations. For those interested, Richard Wilkonson provided evidence using some similar data on equality of incomes. I was quite surprised by the findings. http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html