Ted dot com and gapminder

Ted's site is an apt platform for the biggies in the world arena; those who bring about a change in the perception of world issues. Some of the presentations and talks will remind you about the movie-documentary 'The Inconvenient Truth'. The way each argument is put up and made so compelling, is a testimony to its clarity of thought and transparency in presentation ..which is so much missing in a mass media we are fed with these days.

Having read Tufte's Classics and always thought about missing examples in todays context, this one presentation took me a long way in terms of my understanding of "Quotients of Development" and power of appropriate info-viz tool that help us drive home the correct inferences out of statistical data which are normally looked upon sceptically and often discarded as yet another useless contrived gimmick of numbers.