Statistical storytelling

After a few posts on Facebook statistics and a post on Powerpoint as killer app I here give you two videos with Hans Rosling.

He shows that statistics both can entertain and educate. And he's a good speaker and story teller.

The first video is from TED :


(In case the above video does no start, try this link)

The second one is from LeWeb3:



There is also a number of "Gapcasts" available on YouTube to explore and enjoy.

The software he uses is from Gapminder and was acquired by Google earlier this year. Hopefully this will be added to the set of Google services soon.