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As a use of cutting-edge graphics to visualize and explain complex data, \u00a0it’s hard to beat this witty presentation on the changing patterns of global income distribution<\/a> by Hans Rosling, a professor of global health at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet. But you really need to see it in motion.<\/p>\n\n

Rosling, who rather aptly calls himself an “edutainer,” starts with a chart of individual countries’ 2012 per-capita income plotted against average lifespan. Then, in what at times seems like a clip from “Minority Report,” Rosling\u00a0pulls the data backward in time,\u00a0focuses just on income, collapses the bubbles into four geographic income distributions and then runs them forward.\u00a0The result: Not just an illustration, but a demonstration of how dramatically extreme poverty has fallen in recent years, especially in Asia, and how the world’s income distribution has taken on more of a classic bell-curve shape.<\/p>\n\n

Rosling’s entire talk, in which he uses similar 3-D graphics to discuss population growth, life expectancy and other global trends, was broadcast by the BBC Thursday night. It’s a fascinating look not just at rapidly changing demographics but at innovative, informative display technology. (Nor is this Rosling’s first venture into the realm of high-tech visualization: A few years back he summed up 200 years’ worth of socioeconomic history in 200 countries<\/a> in just about four minutes.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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