Following on from a post I made on FB about Hans Rosling

I share this as an update to references in this blog over many years regards Hans, BigData, LinkedData and Visualisation!! please read on..

I never do a presentation without pointing people to www.gapminder.com not only did this one above go out on a BBC program a couple of years ago but the way you can customise the graphics to explore specific interest area's and specific countries etc show the power of data and technology, in fact BIGData and Visualisation technology, this is only the start! Id recommend anyone and everyone play around with the controls to the right, adjusting the X and Y axis controls and hitting PLAY below the chart http://www.gapminder.org/world and run it several times. http://www.ted.com/talks/anders_ynnerman_visualizing_the_medical_data_explosion.html All thanks to innovation and investment from smart enlightened people who are changing the world and like so much from the last 30yrs of tech is working its way into the hands of everyone! Now we can do that, the achievements of the last 30yrs for the developing world is only going to accelerate because we can http://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_koblin.html The dream of the PC in the 80's superceded by the reality of Mobile with smart phones. I presented at a UNCTAD conference in Lyon in the early 90's and was accused of being irrelevant as most people were more than 5hrs walk from a phone then ;-) . Now we will go further faster with mobile and big data, from disease mgmt and disease irradication, maternal support and gender protection enforcement (http://www.circleof6app.com/ via http://girlsglobe.org/2013/05/02/preventing-violence-against-women-through-mobile-apps/ via http://appsagainstabuse.challenge.gov/ ) to education, human witnessing http://www.witness.org/ and digital peer value exchange (beyond bitcoin http://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-for-enthusiasts) http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mapping-the-world-with-twitter-jer-thorp . We can only imagine, like we did in the 80's once we got past George Orwell 1984!

And if you want to cut through even the bleeding edge of today to see tomorrow there is always http://www.ted.com/talks/john_underkoffler_drive_3d_data_with_a_gesture.html