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The best stats you've ever seen | Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling uses the Gapminder animated-data tool to debunk myths about world development, with sportscaster-like energy. It shows trends in health, income and child survival across countries.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN invokes it as the classic evidence that the world has improved and that people misjudge it, and as an example of great data presentation.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- global development statistics
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 5
- HN mentions in dataset
- 15
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2026
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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80% of everything is crap. And yet the original 2007 Gapminder talk[1] still surprised and educates people today [1] [VIDEO]
nl on Hacker News · 2013-12
In We Need to Talk About TEDYou should check out the book Factfulness by Hans Rosling. Rosling, a now deceased Swedish doctor, makes the case that the world has improved immensely over the past two centuries. He backs it up with copious statistics from the UN and other international NPOs. Rosling …
jsperson on Hacker News · 2019-09
In Economists don’t understand much about the macroeconomyProbably been posted a lot before but always worth a watch. [VIDEO] The Great Hans Rosling. His book is well worth a read as well.
mywacaday on Hacker News · 2020-06
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