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His animated graphs are really good.

man this is awesome, thanks sfjocko... posts like this remind me why i lofe the Sift

Here's a flash version of those very cool graphs:

http://tools.google.com/gapminder/

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Thanks for the link harry. I'm wondering why it's under tools.google.com?

That is really cool stuff! Great find

Glad y'all like it.

Topically related, check out Edward Tufte's site, here's a link to his book page on the site, http://tinyurl.com/5td9f . If you liked this vid and don't know Tufte, I strongly recommend you have a look. His field is not global socio-economics but rather, information visualization.
Here's a Salon piece on Tufte http://tinyurl.com/fm8np

This deserves a lot more attention.

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very good, but shouldn't this be tagged 'long'?

This guy has the thickest Swedish accent I have ever heard in anyone speaking fluent English. So funny to listen to.

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To inaugurate the Sustainability Channel; in honour of this being the best TEDTalk; because the Gapminder software has seen major upgrades.

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