Fascinating talk by Hans Rosling

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Albyn Jones sent me this link by Hans Rosling, the founder of Gapminder. It's a great demonstration of statistical visualization. I'd like to use it to start off my introductory statistics classes--except then the students would probably be disappointed that my lectures aren't as good...

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I want that software!

Also, I thought it was a shame that he didn't mention the massive outlier that was the USA child mortality - it looked like it caused a negative relationship n the OECD countries, between income and child mortality. Would have been interesting to look at how that related to the quintiles of income within the USA as well.

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