Dr Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats

A remarkable and inspiring presentation of data. Dr Rosling, of course, has been pioneering this for a while now.

There is a recent piece in the Economist which I found informative as well. More vidoes linked here.

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