Prob­a­bly every­one has seen Hans Rosling’s famous TED talk by now. If not, here it is:

I recently came across a cou­ple of other excep­tional talks on data visualization:

Hans Rosling again: “Let my dataset change your mind­set”. If only all sta­tis­tics lec­tur­ers were this dynamic!

David McCan­d­less: “The beauty of data visu­al­iza­tion”. Not so excit­ing as Hans, but some great exam­ples.

And here’s an hour-​​length doc­u­men­tary hosted by Hans Rosling called “The Joy of Stats”.

Related Posts:

• Data visu­al­iza­tion
• The Young Stats Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Challenge
• Man vs Wild Data
• Sta­tis­ti­cal Analy­sis Stack­Ex­change site now available
• Ani­mated plots in R and LaTeX