I’ve been a fan of Hans Rosling since I saw his first TED video several years ago. Here’s a four-minute clip from a one hour documentary,The Joy of Stats , he did last year for the BBC. Hans Rosling helps visualize economic development over the last 200 years You can now find the entire [...]
Also tagged BI, statistics, visualizationI’m turning into a bit of a Hans Rosling groupie, having blogged about several of his previous performances at TED conferences (Hans Rosling talk on world economic development myths and realities and More insights from Hans Rosling at TED 2007). Most recently, he presented at TED India. He’s a wonderful story teller and watching his [...]
Also tagged BI, StoryAlan Matsumura and I had an excellent conversation earlier this month about the work he is starting up at SilverTrain. Part of the discussion centered on the unexpected problems that you run into when doing BI/information analytics work. Suppose you work for Kraft. You’d like to know how many Oreos you sold last quarter. An [...]
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