Data – as you’ve never seen it
They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. And if a picture is worth a thousand words then a video must be worth an awful lot. The video at the following link is highly entertaining, topical and says in minutes what some people spend years and years and years trying to get their head around. It’s a lecture about economic progress, about child mortality, about inequality in the world yesterday and today. But rather than putting people to sleep maybe it will wake them up. I hope it makes your day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI
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Here is a spin off of the above presentation. It is not as funny or as comprehensive but it has the virtue of being shorter.
I have a computer snafu that prevents me from hearing the audio, but the first comment on YouTube says:
‘”not a divided world”? WTF? When the very data he is using shows just that? When he himself admits the scale is logarhithic scale? Myth debunked? Well, his number shows that one is no myth. Professor, I suggest CEPR’s Globalisation Scorecard by Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, Egor Kraev, and Judy Chen published in 2001.’
I’ve responded to the link you provide in the comment above here: http://trinifar.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/world-population-growth-rate/#comment-651
The distortion of data is not better data.
Clearly I was wrong. Video is not worth so much without audio.
This is also worth a read. Although as terje points out, it has the weakness of being in print.
http://www.reason.com/news/show/34737.html
What appealed to me about the video was that it is entertaining and it animates the data incredibly well.