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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.