The Joy of Stats, hosted by Hans Rosling, is now viewable in its entirety (video below):
Hans Rosling says there’s nothing boring about stats, and then goes on to prove it. Only with statistics can we make sense of the world and harness the data deluge to serve us rather than drown in its confusion.
A one-hour long documentary produced by Wingspan Productions and broadcast by BBC, 2010.
Originally, it was only viewable in the UK, and then there were some clips, but finally, you can watch the whole thing. It’s an hour long so you might want to bookmark it for later, but it’s entertaining all the way through. Plus, it’s the week between Christmas and New Year’s so I know you’re not working.
There are appearances by Stamen, David McCandless, David Spiegelhalter, and a number of others, while Rosling narrates excitedly. The first half focuses on the greatness that is data and covers some basic statistical concepts. The second half gets into visualization and how it can be used to tell a story. Enjoy. Update: The full version was made unavailable for embed, so visit the Gapminder site to watch it.
[Gapminder via Revolutions]
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Many people who live in UK don’t know that some programmes are viewable only in the UK :) so I received many messages: you have to watch it! Good that now it is online :)
Hope that Joy of Statistics will be back online soon!!!! Rosling is correct – Stats are great fun!!!
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Has any man ever been more excited by the “tabell variat.” Right there on the bridge… borderline public indecency, there might have been kids near.
Bad Joke.
Can’t blame the guy for being passionate :)
Love it.
makes me feel as though there’s going to be a big demand for statisticians/visualization in the future. REALLY big. a real “data rush.”
thanks for posting this one, just new that this existed but UK proxies are not very easy to find, thanks again
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it’s down everywhere i’ve looked :C
Thats no good. Hopefully someone will get it back online soon.
You can watch it in full on Gapminder:
http://www.gapminder.org/videos/the-joy-of-stats/
They’ve disallowed the embed, which seems a bit strange for a group so much about openness, but there you go.
It appears that the video has been set to “private” in Vimeo. Tonight I can’t watch it not find it on Gapminder’s account. Is it just me ?
In fact, I had to use the Flash player to watch the video, not the HTML5 player.
There’s a torrent of it.
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Does anyone know where the library is in the header photo up there ^^?
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