Comments on: Hans Rosling’s talk at the 2007 it@cork conference http://www.tomrafteryit.net/hans-roslings-talk-at-the-2007-itcork-conference/ Tom Raftery, social media consultant, speaker, blogger and podcaster Fri, 16 May 2008 20:09:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Calvin Jones http://www.tomrafteryit.net/hans-roslings-talk-at-the-2007-itcork-conference/#comment-115112 Calvin Jones Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:36:49 +0000 http://www.tomrafteryit.net/hans-roslings-talk-at-the-2007-itcork-conference/#comment-115112 I was at the IT@Cork conference, and Hans Rosling's presentation was probably the highlight in what was an impressive array of speakers. He's a natural (either that or he's worked hard to perfect the art), and the Trendalyzer software is amazing. You can even play around with it yourself -- just go to www.gapminder.org and click on the "go to graph" link under Gapminder World 2006. Have fun... I did! I was at the IT@Cork conference, and Hans Rosling’s presentation was probably the highlight in what was an impressive array of speakers. He’s a natural (either that or he’s worked hard to perfect the art), and the Trendalyzer software is amazing.

You can even play around with it yourself — just go to http://www.gapminder.org and click on the “go to graph” link under Gapminder World 2006. Have fun… I did!

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Data visualisation is a very powerful tool to begin with but when it’s made interactive like this, it becomes totally compelling.

I do wonder how many people in the world would see free access to information in this way as a threat to their power base.

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