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March 30, 2011

Why washing machines are important [Hans Rosling TED Talk]

I’m a big fan of Hans Rosling - he is only of the only people that I know who can make statistics interesting and we could learn a lot from the way he presents and simplified complicated data when trying to get these key messages across to children.

Alan Parkinson (over at the Living Geography Blog) pointed me in the direction of Han’s latest TED talk where he focuses on washing machines! Unlike his previous talks this is the first talk I have seen Hands do where he does not use Gapminder - I’m pretty sure he is using PowerPoint in Office 2010, which demonstrates how this presentation software can be if its used in the right way.

I’ve embedded his 10 minute talk below - a must watch for geography teachers (and anyone else with 10 minutes spare!)

Posted by Ollie Bray on March 30, 2011 at 07:00 AM in Geography, infographics | Permalink

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