TheGreatGodPan on 25/7/2006 at 03:16

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You really have to watch this. It aims to replace an uninformed emotional view of the world with a visually appealing and very informative perspective with mountains of statistics without everything about "statistics" that might make you shudder. The guy giving the presentation is pretty funny too, although partly because of his Swedish accent. It might just be the nerd in me with an aberrant interest in this stuff, but it just strikes me as the sort of thing everyone should see.

(http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7996617766640098677&q=gapminder)

metal dawn on 25/7/2006 at 04:00

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"yump"

Thanks, Pan. I like this. It makes me stop and think deeply about my personal perspectives.

Fascinating, a bit sad sometimes, but still a very good find.

Renegen on 26/7/2006 at 16:36

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Good video, I hated the camera guy who kept taking his camera off the projection screen whenever he felt like it however.

The inscrutable po on 27/7/2006 at 02:14

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What's the guy's point? I watched about ten minutes. He made disparaging remarks about this or that way of thinking, he showed lots of charts, but what was he getting at? It certainly sounded like he thought certain ways of thinking were foolish. The technique of the film seemed typical of conspiracy types where they don't come right out with what they want to say, but instead present lots of carefully selected material to lead you to their conclusions while giving you the impression that you are doing your own thinking when what they're really doing is feeding you their opinions.

(http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/2005/11/review_gapfinde.html)

Renegen on 27/7/2006 at 04:10

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You should of watched the whole clip po, I don't know a lot of evil plotting swedish people, the last part of the clip was just him selling the product. Basically he was saying to use their software for powerful new ways to look at statistics.