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Well, well, well… (Global Health and Data Interpretation)

It took Gapminder.com to get me back online and posting! Thanks to Darren Wilson (who also put together InspiredClassrooms.net) for emailing this link to me: http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2006/06/hans_rosling_on.html

First, this 20 minute video is well worth the watch just for the purpose of informing one self about global health issues and global trends. Second, the way this professor presents the data is beyond phenomenal. Take a look at the video and then take a look at Gap Minder.

Good stuff…

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 10th, 2006 at 8:26 am and is filed under health, global, data, edtech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Well, well, well… (Global Health and Data Interpretation)”

  1. TEDBlog « Musings from the Academy Says:
    August 26th, 2006 at 9:30 pm

    […] A couple of weeks ago, one of the other ITS in my district sent me a link to this video on data management.  Honestly, when I read the synopsis of the video I thought it was going to be boring, but it was quite interesting.  The speaker is entertaining and I was specifically intrigued by his method of presentation (thanks to Jerram for the link). […]

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