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200 Countries, 200 Years

  Mark Miller     from NothingButSharePoint, spoke at tonights's SharePoint NYC User Group's meeting and discussed amoung other things, future graphing methods, such as this:

More about this programme: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgq0l
Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810,

 Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine.  Nobody can say statistics is boring after this!

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