Sunday, February 20, 2011

Beautiful data - Ted Talks

Hans Rosling, Ted Talks.

I've recently become a bit of a fan of Ted Talks, an online video blog dedicated to technological developments and "ideas worth spreading".

A video that really piqued my interest after watching it in class was this one where a charismatic Swedish academic and motivational speaker by the name of Hans Rosling, launched into an impassioned piece of spiel concerning the elimination of the concept of boring statistics with a lot of wit and a lot of passion...

He is a devotee of a programme by the name of Gapminder which whilst downloadable and available for the public use, its still not quite customisable enough for a user to make their own graphs.

However, there is a way around this which has been highlighted under this address, which gives link to a tool that allows the user to be able to make a video capture of any programme of your choice and achieve similar results

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