Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world

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Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing.

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Channel: Science & Technology
Uploaded: June 26, 2007 at 10:07 am
Author: TEDtalksDirector

Length: 00:20:54
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Video Comments:
stevenbunyan (January 2, 2009 at 8:52 pm)
awesome !! .. been waiting to see another talk of his for a while since his last superb one. He does not dissapoint. Grandma statistics.. a whole new level of validation.. lol. Cant wait for your next talk professor.
adolthitler (December 16, 2008 at 4:14 pm)
Way to make a point!
Can't for Hitchens and Dawkins to adopt his "culture".
soobybabe (November 19, 2008 at 1:12 pm)
how do you get serious?
you make powerpoint!
hahahah
Sweden80Here (October 30, 2008 at 6:30 pm)
We call that swenglish. My generation don't have that much accent but nvm he is awesome.
trakkaton (October 6, 2008 at 11:08 am)
GDP per capita: Not an indicator of poverty.
Length of life: Not an indicator of poverty.
Infant mortality: Not an indicator of poverty.

Indicators of poverty: How many people have to live with one d0llar a day (without the inflation tax). Numbers are rising. But the superrich own 110 000 000 000 000 , 00 $. Bottom line: Watch the rise of poverty. And peak oil anyone? Nuclear weapons? D.U.? Hell...

This guy is bullshitting for the Grand Prize.
rythmic81 (September 25, 2008 at 11:35 pm)
The truth value though is bound to the validity of the data. I'm not sure you can get reliable data from all those countries, I mean, who would want to report as the worse country in the world. But then again, I don't know how the data is obtained. But it's an interesting view I think.
rythmic81 (September 25, 2008 at 11:33 pm)
That's a good point! I think it's just some issue with the settings of the software, maybe they are separated but happen to have the same color. But a clear mistake.

Since he's talking about a lot of those south american countries. If you look at the race between sweden, US and Japan I believe I see that it actually focuses on the U.S only.
rythmic81 (September 25, 2008 at 11:29 pm)
I think that software is specially made for the UN, he talked about it being available as a beta version (the state before making it GA (generally available)) online, so I guess you'll find it there.
SgtDrDeath (July 18, 2008 at 3:44 pm)
He is the best...
54spiritedwill54 (May 21, 2008 at 9:01 pm)
Like I have any say in that when my government takes my money by force and uses it for bribeing bad governments.