You should really watch this

Some truly remarkable data visualization stuff here. Also, the presenter, Hans Rosling, is a hell of a public speaker. And it’s not just tech glitz, either. Much thoughtful analysis of numerical trends as they relate to development. It gets weaker towards the end, but I think that this is just because I am less impressed with his dollarstreet software than I am with Gapminder and Trendalyser, which, I think are the best tools I’ve seen thus far for narrativising numerical sequences. Really, nothing quite like them for telling a story with numbers.

The video ends on quite a weird note, but it’s only 20 minutes, so you can’t go in expecting 100% thoughtful analysis of potential solutions and those that have been tried in the past.