Comparing Thematic Maps

Statistical graphics are most convincing when they allow for interesting comparisons. A pie- or bar-chart allows comparisons in one data dimension as does one map, it shows how one variable varies in different regions. But data analysis shouldn’t stop here. Diagrams like the animated population pyramid or the gapminder/trendalyzer allow comparisons in more than one [...]

To build an ecosystem of data on the Web

Using statistical data to explain the world, telling stories with statistical data, visualizing statistical data to make these data accessible in a quick and instructive manner – all these topics are well known and belong to  long and intensive discussions and activities in many institutions of official statistics. Results can be seen on the websites [...]

OECD eXplorer on the BBC News

NCVA’s OECD eXplorer on the BBC News (direct link to NEWS SITE for National Center for Visual Analytics, NCVA, at the University of Linköping, Sweden)

On July 2nd BBC News showed a 3 minutes long program demonstrating OECD eXplorer in live action to explore and visualize complex regional statistical world data – a geovisual analytics technique [...]

Best of TED: Hans Rosling – now in Wired

Published in Wired Blog Network:
Best of TED: Hans Rosling

By Kim Zetter February 03, 2009 | 5:52:12 PMCategories: TED Conference
Hans Rosling is probably the only academic who ends his PowerPoint presentation by swallowing a sword. And he does this while wearing a muscle-T bedazzled with lightning bolts made from shiny, gold sequins.
Rosling is probably also the [...]

Some 10000 videos about statistics at YouTube

Predicting Future Statistics

This video gives information about the past, our own generation and assumes the future statistics of the world and our own possible capabilities. The predections are mind boggling.

The Web: My genie in the bottle.

A panel with representatives from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft talking about the future of the Web. Moderated by Nova Spivack. Worth to have a look at !
Panelists

Howard Bloom, Author, The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century
Peter Norvig, Director of Research, Google Inc.
Jon Udell, Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation
Prabhakar Raghavan, PhD, Head [...]

History of statistics at YouTube!

Programme ready – Joint Seminar OECD & Statistics Sweden

www.oecd.org/oecdworldforum/statknowledge

With Music to Statistics

Mean – Median – Mode. What’s the difference? Here you can find it, explained with music. It’s fun, and it works.
Statistical Literacy wit YouTube

And:
The University of Wollongong in Australia has developed a learning unit on statistical literacy. And here one also can learn about the appropriate use of mean, median and [...]

The TV paradigm

Of all the means to bring data to the people an “old” and wide spread technology seems to be more potent than any other: Video or the television paradigm.
A video combining dynamic data visualizations and attractive, entertaining narrative easily meets with attention and wins favour – even with the couch potato in us.
Here I fully [...]