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Gapminder Teacher’s guide: 200 years that changed the world
From: http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/200-years/
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About the Lesson/Teacher’s guide
This teacher guide explains how you can use Gapminder World to lecture about global development from 1800 until today. For inspiration, you can watch a brief video-lecture with Hans Rosling here.
Key messages of the lecture
- In 1800, income per person was low and life expectancy was very short in all countries.
- Health is better everywhere today, even in the poorest countries.
- Income is much higher in most, but not all, countries today.
- The income and health gaps between countries are larger today.
- Most people today live in “middle income” countries
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TED AND REDDIT’S 10 QUESTIONS TO HANS ROSLING
From Gapminder:Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
TED AND REDDIT’S 10 QUESTIONS TO HANS ROSLING
Posted September 11, 2009 
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About the Interview
In a cooperation between the internet community Reddit and TED,Reddit users got to put their questions to Hans Rosling. In this video response he answers the top 10 questions with explaining graphs.
Read more comments on reddit.
Talks Hans Rosling: Asia’s rise — how and when
Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world’s dominant economic force. At TEDIndia, he graphs global economic growth since 1858 and predicts the exact date that India and China will outstrip the US. http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_asia_s_rise_how_and_when.html
In Roslings bubbling world
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Click on the link above to get a Google Translate version of an article published 2009-11-20 16:20 in CIO Sweden:
GAPMINDER NEWS
Documentary on Hans Rosling available on-line (now full version)The TV documentary Rosling’s World is now posted on the website of the Swedish Public Service Television (SVT) website, with English subtitles. The documentary, by the journalist Pär Fjällström, follows Hans Rosling preparing his lecture at the 2009 TED conference. The one hour documentary, which has aired several times on Swedish television will be available at svt.se for 30 days (until September 17).
Follow Hans Rosling on TwitterYou can now follow Hans Rosling on Twitter. On his Twitter page you can read his “tweets” about interesting facts and graphics and, if you have a Twitter account of your own, become a follower.
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“Rosling’s World: The best statistics you’ve ever seen” (from Swedish Television)
Hans Rosling in action. Foto: TED.com
Rosling’s World: The best statistics you’ve ever seen
Hans Rosling is a professor in international health, who has made an unlikely global success. His presentations on global development evokes laughter, rejoice and reflections. People with power, like Al Gore or Bill Clinton, ask for his advice. He wants everyone to question their prejudices about the world – as he himself has needed to do. A documentary by Pär Fjällström, SVT.
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 of National Statistical Institutes and international statistical organisations.
Some examples:
Business Cycle Tracer Statistics Nertherlands
Stat@las Statistics Switzerland
There are many other visualizations and behind all these user friendly databases with free access for everybody. This is the ecosystem of official statistics.
Official satistical data are also used and presented outside the institutions of official statistics (see: earlier post raw data now and helping free up data), the discussions and aims are comparable, the instruments are innovative.
Well known is Gapminder which collects data from many sources and offers a presentation tool that has also been integrated as motion chart in the list of visualization widgets of Google spreadsheets.
Google’s Fusion Tables (see earlier post Fusion Tables and gov.data) provide some more possibilities of data collaboration and data visualization. Listening to Alon Halevy, senior Google engineer and Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute (which uses Fusion Tables) well known arguments can be heard: ‘ “The biggest potential [of Google Fusion Tables] is to build an ecosystem of data on the Web. This means making it easy for the people to upload, to merge data sets, to discuss the data, to create visualizations and then to take these visualizations and put them elsewhere on the Web so that there’s better data on the Web.” ‘
Link: Google Fusion Tables Continue reading “To build an ecosystem of data on the Web”
Gapminder on the Diversity of Africa
Another TED video of Hans Rosling presenting data with Gapminder. This time on The Truth About HIV, in which we learn a lot about the diversity of Africa. This is where the trendalyzer shines.
And albeit the severe topic I also wanted to bring your attention to a detail of his presentation technique. Hans Rosling uses an old-style pointer instead of the laser ones we see so very often these days and his presentation makes it very clear why that is a better choice.
You might want to subscribe to the TED videos as a podcast on iTunes. On the web however you will be able to get to the translations, e.g. the video mentioned here is already available with french and swedish subtitles.
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