Hm, at 30:30 / 1939-1943 there's a european contry that has it's lifespan sinking to below 25 years. Poland? The Soviets murdered an awful lot of people there, more than the germans ever did.
how many govt kids end up in courts compared to non govt kids , its a trick question , only non govt kids end up in courts and jails and in the phony criminal justice system
Thoroughly enjoyed this documentary, thank you for posting it here on Youtube. Made me wish I should have work harder and paid more attention during classes on statistics.
At 30:32 you see the life expectancy of one european country in 1942 drop to below 20. Is this correct or just missing data? Or has it to do with countries not existing at all at some stages in history? Seems a lil odd to me to be that extremely low.
@OhHerro50 Probably. Here's an example of the hidden danger in visualizing statistics which, although I really liked this documentary, is barely mentioned. They are often misused by leaving out the deviations and by using large or small scales as long as it suits the message the person showing the graph or piechart wants to show his viewers. I love the art of data design but am often horrified by the abuse displayed by marketeers, people in finance or politicians with hiden agendas.
Not to be rude, but you're being a negative nancy. It's difficult to get people to talk about, understand, and relate to numbers,data, and statistics. As an economist, my greatest professional struggle isn't data crunching or model selection, but explaining statistical facts to non-economist professionals about economic and statistical concepts so that the key points are well understood. Rosling gets this, and make statistics friendly to those who do not pursue a career of numbers
unfortunately its a falsly promoted myth that by using stats you can make "proper sense" of the "changes in the world". there is too much proof of this. get in touch with real science, this is for hollywood, trying to help the rightly pour image of quantitative research.
@vaskerund What are you talking about? How is quantitative research not "real science"? I work in bioinformatics, and knowledge of statistics is absolutely required. There's no way you could ever do most genetics research without statistical analysis. The same goes for econ/finance - as long as no econ/financial theory properly describes what we observe, all we have is data. How do you propose making better sense of the world? I'm honestly confused as to what you're talking about.
@BenkaiDebussy you are right! for your branch of science that makes total sense - I do not argue that. most of the content of the video however is focussed on explaining the social sphere ... and here again - in sociology - there are big fights between the qualitative and the quantitative paradigms. both are perfectly good for what they can achieve within their range, but - and that is my simple and in fact very common claim - there are some phenomena where they're loosing touch.
@vaskerund Ohh, I see what you mean! There is a big issue with statistics in sociology, primarily because the number of codependent factors involved in any particular phenomenon is way too high to ever reach any reliable conclusions. It could be useful for a couple things though: helping direct future research and verifying existing ideas. But it doesn't make any sense to base any sociological claims on statistics alone.
@BenkaiDebussy, yepp and this is called triangulation, a method- mix basically. nobody wants without statistics, I think it's just a bit weird the way it is promoted here. looks like economisation of science; you know, that "selling t-shirts branded by the university to create more identification and collect the profit from merch-sales" ;) win-win situation but not for the sake of proper science (I think) - science shouldn't be a show solely.
@machaleno Trendalyzer, which is now owned by Google, but which was initially developed by Rosling's team for Gapminder. You can reuse the country statistics pre-populated at Gapminder, or you can use Google Spreadsheet to create a "motion chart" with your own data.
I loved it when he just mentioned :a story ... involved plotting 120.000 numbers... pretty neat eh? I imagine we're at a peak at visualising evolutions, volumes, relations and dependencies with our technology... but policymakers should try to beat the graphs, that's the key. Our effort as human race to not just predict but also to 'drive' the new data to the shape and form we desire later on - instead of trying to correct at edges of large quantities - that's the true challenge !
1. using opera browser (h t t p : / / w w w . opera.com/browser/download/)
2. using this nice extension h t t p s : / / a d d o n s .opera.com/addons/extensions/details/fastesttube-youtube-video-downloader/1.2.1/?display=en
Tip: fast right arrow, first placed right from letter 'h', then SPR key, repeat!.... thank youtube for errors on URL's
@shaktiIIIgta Thanks, I have a Firefox extension that I use, but it didn't work here. I thought maybe because it is an unlisted video, but I'm not sure if that matters.
@betadryl It's less about power, and more about consistency of information, and determining how to present it. These are far from trivial tasks... the first is a feat of social engineering, the second is a feat of graphical design. Neither falls under the purview of Moor's Law.
Todays computers are nothing compared with tomorrows computers. New perspectives will arise with even better computational capabilities. Still we need information to be free for this to happen. Therefore, place your support at wikileaks and similar organizations. Statistics can be bend to serve both good and bad.
interesting stuff
fredfreddy 1 year ago
I wonder what Hans would think of Canada wimping out on it's census.
Mugulord 1 year ago
32:28 what is that red country on the right?
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sorry for the spam i'm really curious
richisnang1 1 year ago
Hm, at 30:30 / 1939-1943 there's a european contry that has it's lifespan sinking to below 25 years. Poland? The Soviets murdered an awful lot of people there, more than the germans ever did.
maltemer 1 year ago
Holly shit! Why evil nazi scientist is talking to me about statistics?
That's racist!
b0h3ma 1 year ago
wat up dawgs! to teh face to teh face! pgda!
ChalleFoV3 1 year ago
how many govt kids end up in courts compared to non govt kids , its a trick question , only non govt kids end up in courts and jails and in the phony criminal justice system
BeautifulGirlByDana 1 year ago
After watching that, I feel better. Which would put me dead center on the emotional bell curve, wouldn't it...
iceblockfilmspage 1 year ago
Hans Rosling is right. Seeing all of these statistics made me horny...
tommynguyen267 1 year ago
I can't believe I just watch this entire thing. I feel so alone.
Skywalker875 1 year ago
"Like Shit" I lol'd
wildmanoman 1 year ago
noooo 1000 megabytes = 1 gigabyte is wrong its actually 1024 megabytre = 1 gigabyte
Rayden150 1 year ago
@Rayden150 Actually 1000 Megabytes is 1 Gigabyte
1024 Mebibytes is 1 Gibibyte
icrona 1 year ago
@icrona yea thanks your right, i guess im the one getting corrected now :(
Rayden150 1 year ago
fucking love stats. FUCKING LOVE THEM
manbearpig91 1 year ago
12:45 Funny Army running lol
nihoncol 1 year ago
im not sure if this video is praising the power of statistics or the power of computers
yiluncui 1 year ago
I clicked on Show Statistics after finishing the video :)
t3po7re54 1 year ago 3
better, bad, good, right, guilty, sick, the same....*pause*...like shit....sorry, well....
freakallright 1 year ago
2 people are still mad at their stats professors
kitkatkelly88 1 year ago
I love this documentary!
tehlime 1 year ago
wait what?! why are statistics "sexy"
itscrawford 1 year ago
awesome!
sealobo 1 year ago
thumbs up if giz brought you here!
skat3b3an94 1 year ago 5
@skat3b3an94 I gave you a thumbs down for being an attention whore.
pettiblay 1 year ago
@pettiblay as did I *highfive*
HangerProductions 1 year ago
MASTER SPLINTER, IS IT YOU? YOU SHALL TRAIN ME! GIVE ME THE POWER... OF STATISTICS!
Karakas4 1 year ago
Thoroughly enjoyed this documentary, thank you for posting it here on Youtube. Made me wish I should have work harder and paid more attention during classes on statistics.
pseudoartiste 1 year ago
At 30:32 you see the life expectancy of one european country in 1942 drop to below 20. Is this correct or just missing data? Or has it to do with countries not existing at all at some stages in history? Seems a lil odd to me to be that extremely low.
soundwave070 1 year ago
@soundwave070 maybe Poland? maybe stats from wartime deaths from firing squads, concentration camps brought the life expectancy down...
OhHerro50 1 year ago
@OhHerro50 Probably. Here's an example of the hidden danger in visualizing statistics which, although I really liked this documentary, is barely mentioned. They are often misused by leaving out the deviations and by using large or small scales as long as it suits the message the person showing the graph or piechart wants to show his viewers. I love the art of data design but am often horrified by the abuse displayed by marketeers, people in finance or politicians with hiden agendas.
soundwave070 1 year ago
@soundwave070 WWII?
Meaningfulbeans 1 year ago
I am hungry
abohthlool 1 year ago
Thank you for putting this on here! I was very disappointed to have missed on TV and iplayer :)
MissSoozy 1 year ago
The poisson distribution is absolute cracker!
krey1112 1 year ago 3
@vaskerund
Not to be rude, but you're being a negative nancy. It's difficult to get people to talk about, understand, and relate to numbers,data, and statistics. As an economist, my greatest professional struggle isn't data crunching or model selection, but explaining statistical facts to non-economist professionals about economic and statistical concepts so that the key points are well understood. Rosling gets this, and make statistics friendly to those who do not pursue a career of numbers
jerichohill817 1 year ago
theres one person who didn't like this... what would be the statistics on that?
"out of every 500 people theres one who's unexceptionably stupid? o.O
BlairSantos 1 year ago 3
This has been flagged as spam show
theres one person who didn't like this... what would be the statistics on that?
"out of every 500 people theres one who's unexceptionably stupid?"
BlairSantos 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
theres one person who didn't like this... what would be the statistics on that?
"out of every 500 people theres one who's unexceptionably stupid?"
BlairSantos 1 year ago
You'll never beat NORWAY!
MarlinMr 1 year ago
1 in 521 people hate statistics!
solidkundi 1 year ago
Great video. Thank you!
snwbrus 1 year ago
Wow, this is the first hour-long Youtube video I've seen o_o
Angelblade717 1 year ago
unfortunately its a falsly promoted myth that by using stats you can make "proper sense" of the "changes in the world". there is too much proof of this. get in touch with real science, this is for hollywood, trying to help the rightly pour image of quantitative research.
vaskerund 1 year ago
@vaskerund What are you talking about? How is quantitative research not "real science"? I work in bioinformatics, and knowledge of statistics is absolutely required. There's no way you could ever do most genetics research without statistical analysis. The same goes for econ/finance - as long as no econ/financial theory properly describes what we observe, all we have is data. How do you propose making better sense of the world? I'm honestly confused as to what you're talking about.
BenkaiDebussy 1 year ago
@BenkaiDebussy you are right! for your branch of science that makes total sense - I do not argue that. most of the content of the video however is focussed on explaining the social sphere ... and here again - in sociology - there are big fights between the qualitative and the quantitative paradigms. both are perfectly good for what they can achieve within their range, but - and that is my simple and in fact very common claim - there are some phenomena where they're loosing touch.
vaskerund 1 year ago
@vaskerund Ohh, I see what you mean! There is a big issue with statistics in sociology, primarily because the number of codependent factors involved in any particular phenomenon is way too high to ever reach any reliable conclusions. It could be useful for a couple things though: helping direct future research and verifying existing ideas. But it doesn't make any sense to base any sociological claims on statistics alone.
BenkaiDebussy 1 year ago
@BenkaiDebussy, yepp and this is called triangulation, a method- mix basically. nobody wants without statistics, I think it's just a bit weird the way it is promoted here. looks like economisation of science; you know, that "selling t-shirts branded by the university to create more identification and collect the profit from merch-sales" ;) win-win situation but not for the sake of proper science (I think) - science shouldn't be a show solely.
vaskerund 1 year ago
what happened to the sound?
betchay27 1 year ago
what hapenned to the sound?
betchay27 1 year ago
theres one person who didn't like this... what would be the statistics on that?
"out of every 500 people theres one who's unexceptionably stupid?"
BlairSantos 1 year ago 5
@BlairSantos ha ha .. That was funny...
jayarathina 1 year ago
this is so awesome, thx 4 sharing this!
AngelusGer88 1 year ago
What is the name of the statistical system that man used?? The program name..
machaleno 1 year ago
@machaleno Gapminder?
sinkmichael 1 year ago
@sinkmichael Thanks man!!!!! Happy new year!!!
machaleno 1 year ago
@machaleno Trendalyzer, which is now owned by Google, but which was initially developed by Rosling's team for Gapminder. You can reuse the country statistics pre-populated at Gapminder, or you can use Google Spreadsheet to create a "motion chart" with your own data.
Trixtah 1 year ago
@Trixtah ohh that's nice.. thanks a lot.. happy new year for you too!!
machaleno 1 year ago
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machaleno 1 year ago
I loved it when he just mentioned :a story ... involved plotting 120.000 numbers... pretty neat eh? I imagine we're at a peak at visualising evolutions, volumes, relations and dependencies with our technology... but policymakers should try to beat the graphs, that's the key. Our effort as human race to not just predict but also to 'drive' the new data to the shape and form we desire later on - instead of trying to correct at edges of large quantities - that's the true challenge !
CutterScene 1 year ago
Thank you very much for that. Brilliant.
hohlwelt 1 year ago
This is one of the most captivating videos I've ever seen (right up there with Hans Rosling's TED talks).
GeminiXtech 1 year ago
Anywhere to download this?
spamdude1 1 year ago
@spamdude1
1. using opera browser (h t t p : / / w w w . opera.com/browser/download/)
2. using this nice extension h t t p s : / / a d d o n s .opera.com/addons/extensions/details/fastesttube-youtube-video-downloader/1.2.1/?display=en
Tip: fast right arrow, first placed right from letter 'h', then SPR key, repeat!.... thank youtube for errors on URL's
shaktiIIIgta 1 year ago
@shaktiIIIgta Thanks, I have a Firefox extension that I use, but it didn't work here. I thought maybe because it is an unlisted video, but I'm not sure if that matters.
spamdude1 1 year ago
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fffffffffffffffuuu 1 year ago
Wish I could have had him in college!
legalass17 1 year ago
Fantastic! Thank you Gapminder/google/bbc!
jonaschau 1 year ago
AAND THAT'S PRETTY EXCITING, ISN'T IT!!!
virjog95 1 year ago 90
This video made me so happy; I love BBC documentaries (:
socceremochick 1 year ago 2
After they talked about audio recognition I had to turn on transcribed audio and lawl for a bit.
gedelgo 1 year ago
28:20 - 33:02 is the part where he compares wealth and health of the whole world population over the last 200 years. Stunning.
PutridOgrus 1 year ago
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SamuelLockyer 1 year ago
Entertaining.
jareau 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@betadryl It's less about power, and more about consistency of information, and determining how to present it. These are far from trivial tasks... the first is a feat of social engineering, the second is a feat of graphical design. Neither falls under the purview of Moor's Law.
MyrddinE 1 year ago
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MyrddinE 1 year ago
Hans Rosling is such a great ambassador on the usage of data and statistics. He is the inventor of "sexy" statistics :-)
aseanwise 1 year ago 41
This guy's voice is fucking awesome.
douggard 1 year ago 2
Todays computers are nothing compared with tomorrows computers. New perspectives will arise with even better computational capabilities. Still we need information to be free for this to happen. Therefore, place your support at wikileaks and similar organizations. Statistics can be bend to serve both good and bad.
betadryl 1 year ago