Watch Hans Rosling's Latest Great Data-Driven TED Talk

October 8, 2010 • 10:30 am PDT
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Hans Rosling is a ~~Dutch~~ Swedish doctor and statistician who invented Gapminder, a very fun tool that lets you play around with global statistics. He is also a great performer and has given some amazingly entertaining TED Talks about global health statistics. You heard me, entertaining talks about global health statistics. His latest talk, just released, is about the unreported by amazing reductions in child mortality in the developing world. Watch it below, his enthusiasm is infectious.

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