Spencer Greenberg TEDx – Improve Your Life With Probability

December 12, 2011
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From TEDx Black Rock City, Burning Man. This lines up with how I’ve approached things for years. Rather than think of things in a dichotomous view (is good vs is bad, will happen vs won’t happen), I like to think of things in terms of the probability.

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Hans Rosling – TED 2007 – New Insights on Poverty

April 15, 2010

I’ve written about Hans Rosling’s awesome 2006 TED conference presentation on income distribution and birth rates in the non-industrialized world. He used a tool for data visualization that was new at the time, and has since been integrated into many toolsets, including Google Analytics.
At TED 2007, he stepped back up to show how his work [...]

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Google’s Visualization API via Hans Rosling at TED

March 12, 2009

(Summary for the short attention span types: a dry intro, then a video that you have to see.)
In 2006, Hans Rosling gave a presentation at TED, the context of which was income distribution, health, and tech adoption in the third world. But mostly, the presentation became known for the method of presenting the data more than [...]

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