Interesting Data

As a qualitative researcher I am generally allergic to data. So I have been thinking for a while about how to make the presentation of data more interesting / and importantly more insightful.

Here are some really nice examples: Hans Rosling at TED uses longitudinal data that 'moves' (go to about 4:20 seconds to see the really cool stuff):




Charung Gollar, a Norwegian diplomat was asked to present in front of the United Nations, in a simple graphic way, the world's most important problems in 2004. He came up with 8 pictures. Here are a couple. Read the legends:





Nice.