THE VIDEO SHELF · global living standards
See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income | Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Anna Rosling Rönnlund presents Dollar Street, a project photographing homes in dozens of countries, from stoves to beds to toilets, and sorting them by income. She shows how data visualization can change how we see the world.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as an insightful, perspective-giving look at how people live across income levels, useful as a counter to pessimism.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- TED
- Topic
- global living standards
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2023
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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This TED talk [1] about seeing how the rest of the world lives was very insightful for me. Anna Rosling Rönnlund (Hans Rosling's daughter in law) went to 264 homes of varying income levels and took photos of beds, stoves, toys and other standardized goods. …
shalmanese on Hacker News · 2018-05
In Statistics, Fast and SlowThis is just personal but anytime I feel similar to the OP, I watch something by Hans Rosling [1] or Anna Rosling [2]. Although 10 and 5 years old respectively, I feel the general sentiment is still true - that human progress is slow, in …
somethoughts on Hacker News · 2023-01
In Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining?
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