6 May 2009

Watch The Floating Bubbles Burst

Posted by Connor under: History; Internet; Technology; Video .

Hans Rosling is a professor of Health Statistics in Stockholm, Sweeden. Last year he helped develop a fascinating bit of informatics software called, Gapminder.

Be warned though, clicking on that last link will take you to a fascinating, time-sucking world of really cool information visualizations that will utterly challenge a many of your core assumptions about how the world works and is arranged.

In the video below, Rosling shows how the Gapminder software works and explains how the last 200 years have shaped global society.

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