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Hans Rosling uses dynamic data visualization to show the relationship between life expectancy and income across 200 countries over 200 years.

Subscribe and 🔔 to the BBC 👉 bit.ly/BBCYouTubeSub Watch the BBC first on iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/iPlayer-Home More about this programme: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine. #bbc

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…on. And when compared to the present, media narrative driven present its hard to see the improvements happening across the global population. It helps me put stuff in perspective - of course mileage may var (and maybe it's just helping me delude myself into getting out a funk but it works!). 1 Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - link to this video 2 See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income - Anna Rosling Rönnlund link…
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Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes link to this video Concisely sums up everything good about free-market capitalism.
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Here's another visualization focusing on the last 200 years. Doesn't focus on population growth as much as life expectancy, but a far cooler visualization in my book! Starts about 30 seconds in: link to this video
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The original video link ( link to this video ) was submitted 5 days ago ( link ). Then a slightly different url ( link to this video ) was submitted 10 hours ago ( link ) It seems quite unfair to me that the person who submitted this content first, and did so without linking to their own blog, gets none of the recognition and karma. While 100% of sthomps submissions ( link ) are links to his own blog, where he mirrors or links to the original content. I just said it ( link ) but I'll say it again: I think this is a flaw in HN's ranking scheme. If the original link isn't upvoted quickly, it never gets on the front page. After that, the rewards (recognition, traffic, and karma) go to people who mirror the o…
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