Professor Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling is a co-founder of the Gapminder Institute, an organisation dedicated to promoting a fact-based world view.
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The Joy Of Stats: How statistics make understanding foreign words simpler
Comment posted by ek2535
14 Dec 2011
Amazing stuff! But machine translation is still far behind the real thing - humans! ;) Read more : The Joy Of Stats: How statistics make understanding foreign words simpler
The Joy Of Stats: How statistics make understanding foreign words simpler
Comment posted by zz819836
27 Aug 2011
OK. Now I'm hooked. Google are doing some amazing stuff here. A real-world practical and extremely useful application of statistics. I never thought I'd see it. We are witnessing the birth of the... Read more : The Joy Of Stats: How statistics make understanding foreign words simpler
The Joy Of Stats: 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes
Comment posted by zz819836
27 Aug 2011
What a thoroughly excellent illustration of how the world has progressed. I have hated statistics since school, though I enjoy most other forms of mathematics. I was easily bored simply plotting... Read more : The Joy Of Stats: 200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes
The Joy Of Stats
Comment posted by jsj54
14 Jul 2011
What an excellent programme! The Joy of Stats isn't something that would normally grab me, but I came across it by chance last night (luckily near the start of the programme) and it had me gripped... Read more : The Joy Of Stats
The Joy Of Stats
Comment posted by zz799108
13 Jul 2011
Great programme this evening - just one problem. The section on showing the relative scale of numbers made a fundamental error - it put on the same figure a set of 'stocks' [total cost of Iraq war,... Read more : The Joy Of Stats