StatLit Videos

Hans Rosling (above: 1948-2017) was the world leader in producing popular videos involving everyday statistics. He has had over 5 million viewings of his 2010 video: 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes - The Joy of Stats. Go to GapMinder for data, downloads, teacher education and more.

2016 Singapore in a Global Perspective The change from large to small families reflects dramatic changes in peoples lives. In this TEDx video Hans Rosling talks about how this change plays out in Sweden, Singapore and in his own life.

2015 Don’t Panic — How to End Poverty in 15 years. Hans Rosling asks: Has the UN gone mad? The United Nations just announced their boldest goal ever: To eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, already by 2030.

2014 Will saving poor children lead to overpopulation? Hans Rosling explains a very common misunderstanding about the world: That saving the poor children leads to overpopulation. Not only is it not right, it’s the other way around!

2014: Demographic Party Trick 1 – Hans Rosling & Bill Gates April 26, 2014 Explaining the global vaccination programs is NOT a party-killer! It’s a Party Trick! In this film Hans asks the question — What percent of children get the basic vaccines? In our Global Ignorance Project we found that the majority of people in Sweden & US don’t know the fact that most children in the world get the basic vaccines.

2012 TED@Qatar: Hans Rosling: Religions and babies. Hans Rosling had a question: Do some religions have a higher birth rate than others -- and how does this affect global population growth? Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Qatar, he graphs data over time and across religions. With his trademark humor and sharp insight, Hans reaches a surprising conclusion on world fertility rates. (Published on May 22, 2012 by TEDtalksDirector) http://www.ted.com [13:21 long 107,345 views as of 6/2012]

2011: US in a converging world, Hans Rosling on CNN (Fareed Zakaria GPS). Hans Rosling uses bubbles and graphs to show Fareed Zakaria how the rest of the world caught up to the U.S. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Mar 15, 2011 ) [5:22 long. 47,724 views as of 6/2012]

2011: Momentum 2011: Hans Rosling. International health guru Hans Rosling is known worldwide for using animations of global trends to brings statistics to life as he lectures about past and contemporary economic, social and environmental changes in the world. (Uploaded by UMNIonE on Jun 1, 2011 ) [32:33 long. 6,265 views 6/2012]

2011 TED: Hans Rosling and the magic washing machine @ TED Talks. What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. With newly designed graphics from Gapminder, Rosling shows us the magic that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash day into an intellectual day of reading. (Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Mar 21, 2011) [9:16 long. 154,879 views as of 6/2012]

2010: Rosling's World - a documentary about Hans Rosling. Hans Rosling is a professor in international health, who has made an unlikely global success. His Gapminder presentations on global development evokes laughter, rejoice and reflections. In this SVT (Swedish Television) documentary, film maker Pär Fjällström lets Hans Rosling tell the story about his life and what has shaped his world view. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Aug 3, 2010) [56:54 long. 73,408 views as of 6/2012]

2010 TED: The good news of the decade? Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories. (Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Oct 7, 2010) [16:06 long. 62,268 views 6/2012]

2010 TED@India. Asia’s rise, how and when (TEDIndia) . Hans Rosling, at the first TED-conference in India, predicts when China and India will catch up with the United States in terms of income per person. He graphs global economic growth since 1858, depicting some of the main events using images and animated Gapminder charts. [15:50 long]

2010 TED@Cannes: Hans Rosling on global population growth. The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you'll see). (Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Jul 9, 2010) [10:16 long. 222,422 views 6/2012]

2010: Free statistics for democracy by Hans Rosling. From a talk by Hans Rosling at the Prince Mahidol Award conferance 2010. Produced by health metric network. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Apr 9, 2010) [1:46 long. 12,531 views]

2010: Hans Rosling at World Bank: Open Data. "Mindset upgrade for a multi-polar world." Hans Rosling at World Bank: Open Data - Speech given at World Bank, Washington DC. (Uploaded by WorldBank on May 22, 2010) [41:55 long. 7,363 views as of 6/2012]

2009: 200 years that changed the world (with Hans Rosling). For the first time, Gapminder can now visualize change in life expectancy and income per person over the last two centuries. In this Gapminder video, Hans Rosling shows you how all the countries of the world have developed since 1809 - 200 years ago. The interactive animations and corresponding documentation are freely available at www.gapminder.org/world. Further information and other videos are available from www.gapminder.org/video. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Mar 22, 2009) [4:38 long. 298,669 views as of 6/2012]

2009 TED@State: Hans Rosling: Let my dataset change your mindset. Talking at the US State Department this summer, Hans Rosling uses his fascinating data-bubble software to burst myths about the developing world. Look for new analysis on China and the post-bailout world, mixed with classic data shows. (Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Aug 31, 2009) http://www.ted.com [22:30 long. 55,326 views 6/2012]

2009. Shanghai, New York, Mumbai by Hans Rosling. A video from Gapminder with Hans Rosling telling the story of three big nations (China, USA and India). First, see the development of three centers of trade, Shanghai, New York and Mumbai. Secondly, a comparison of the capitals: Beijing, Washington, D.C. and New Delhi. And finally, a note from Professor Rosling on how one can measure the progress of President Obama's intentions to improve the health system. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Mar 30, 2009) [4:01 long. 30,964 views as of 6/2012]

2009: Human rights & democracy statistics by Hans Rosling. In this video, made for the Oslo freedom Forum 2009, Hans Rosling talks about the difficulty in measuring progress in Human Rights in the form of comparable numerical statistics. He also shows the surprisingly weak correlation between existing estimates for democracy and socio-economic progress. The reason may be that democracy and human rights measurements are badly done. It may also be that democracy and human rights are dimensions of development that are in themselves difficult to assign numerical values. But it also seems as much improvement in health, economy and education can be achieved with modest degrees of human rights and democracy. Hans Roslings concluding remark is that Human rights and Democracy maybe should be mainly regarded as values in themselves rather than means to achieve something else. (Uploaded by Gapcast on May 23, 2009) [9:52 long. 21,081 views 6/2012]

2009 TED: HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals by Hans Rosling. Hans Rosling unveils new data visuals that untangle the complex risk factors of one of the world's deadliest (and most misunderstood) diseases: HIV. He argues that preventing transmissions -- not drug treatments -- is the key to ending the epidemic. (Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on May 13, 2009) [9:57 long. 81,571 views 6/2012]

2009: Asia's rise -- how and when. Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world's dominant economic force. At TEDIndia, he graphs global economic growth since 1858 and predicts the exact date that India and China will outstrip the US. [17:20 long. 144,957 views as of 6/2012]

2008: Hans Rosling on the Rise of China. Legendary Swedish academic gives his take on the importance of China's rise and how most people don't realize what has happened. (Uploaded by thomascrampton on Dec 5, 2008) [23,477 views 6/2012]

2008: Gapcast #11 - Reducing Child Mortality with Hans Rosling. Nearly 10 million children under five die every year. Almost 90% of all child deaths are attributable to just six conditions: neonatal causes, pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, measles, and HIV/AIDS. The aim (Millenium Development Goal 4) is to further cut child mortality by two thirds by 2015. How can this be achieved? Which countries make sufficient progress? And with which rate did a country like Norway reduce its child mortality the last 100 years? Watch Gapcast #11 to understand the background and the current status of a Millenium Development Goal. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Nov 6, 2008) [9:59 long. 11,049 views 6/2012]

2008: Gapcast #10 - Carbon Dioxide with Hans Rosling. Everyone contributes to carbon dioxide emissions, but some more than others. Reducing global CO2 emissions requires that we have a good understanding of the current picture. Serious progress can be made if we develop a renewable source of electricity that is cheaper than coal. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Jan 16, 2008) [4:06 long. 40,682 views 6/2012]

2008: Gapcast #9 - Public Services with Hans Rosling. Public services (safe water, education, healthcare) meet basic human needs, but are currently unavailable to many people. Better information about access to these services is needed by service users and providers in order to make and measure progress in this area. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Jan 16, 2008) [3:26 long. 11,521 views 6/2012]

2008: Gapcast #8 - Turkey meets France with Hans Rosling. There are many differences between Turkey and France. But are the differences increasing or decreasing? From a public health perspective, the answer is obvious. (Uploaded by KikiBubaMovies on May 7, 2008) [3:40 long. 6,205 views 6/2012]

2008: Gapcast #7 - Maternal Mortality with Hans Rosling. The most qualified estimates tell us that 500 000 women die every year because of pregnancy. However, the numbers are so uncertain, that we can't even tell if the situation improves from one year to another. (Uploaded by KikiBubaMovies on May 7, 2008) [8:44 long. 6,963 views 6/2012]

2007: GapCast #6 - Chile a Developing Country? with Hans Rosling. What's the difference between Chile, Cuba and the USA? Well, it depends on what kind of factors you are looking at. It is obvious however, is that the reality is more detailed than just dividing the countries in developed and developing countries. In some aspects Cuba was closer to USA than to Chile in 1962. Today all three countries has a low child mortality but differs both in fertility rate and in income. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Nov 19, 2007) [5:07 long. 16,687 views as of 6/2012]

2007: Gapcast #5 - Bangladesh Miracle with Hans Rosling. Have you heard about Miracle that has happened in Bangladesh over the last 30 years? No? Bangladesh has the highest population density among the worlds big countries, today, Bangladesh has more people than Russia. But the area is smaller than Florida. So what is the Miracle? In 1970 an average women in Bangladesh gave birth to 7 children, and on of four of them died before the age of five. But after independence from Pakistan in 1971 things has improved. See Hans Roslings GapCast to see how much. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Oct 26, 2007) [6:32 long. 51,778 views as of 6/2012]

2007: GapCast #4 - Globalization with Hans Rosling. How has the Global Economy effected the income of people across the world? Although the percentage of poverty has gone down, the number of poor people is still very high. Still, the percentage of people living in extreme poverty has gone down from around 40 percent 30 years ago to todays number of around 20 percent The good news is that the eradication of poverty is within human range. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Oct 24, 2007) [4:03 long. 24,847 views as of 6/2012]

2007: Gapcast #3 - Human Development Trends with Staffan Landin. A short overview of the trends in Human Development from 1960 to 2001. From Gapminder Foundation. See more at: www.gapminder.org. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Oct 4, 2007) [8:53 long. 18,027 views 6/2012]

Gapcast #3 - Utvecklingstrender (Swedish) Med Staffan Landin. En snabb överblick över utvecklingen inom hälsa och ekonomi i världens länder från 1960 till 2001. Från Stiftelsen Gapminder. Se fler och läs mer på: www.gapminder.org. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Oct 4, 2007) [7:17 long. 2,271 views 6/2012]

2007: Gapcast #2 - Urbanization with Hans Rosling. With Hans Rosling. In this GapCast, Hans Rosling focuses on urbanization. In four minutes he give a short overview over the urban challenge, showing the last 40 years of development in urbanization and economic growth. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Oct 4, 2007) [31,597 views as of 6/2012]

2007: Gapcast #1 - Health, Money & Sex in Sweden with Hans Rosling. In the first gapcast from Gapminder Professor Hans Rosling shows how economic growth, public health and sexual rights have changed in ... all » Sweden during 300 years. In only 6 minutes he shows life expectancy and GDP per capita of Sweden from 1709 to 2004. With trendalyzer graphics he compares historic Sweden with countries of today. 300 years of Swedish progress covers today´s disparity from Sierra Leone to Japan. Wheras education of midwives started in 1709 it was only in the 1970íes that family planning was included in their training. Sexual rights came late in Sweden compared to progress in health and wealth. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Oct 4, 2007) [4:45 long. 90,864 views 6/2012]

2007 TED: Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world. http://www.ted.com Researcher Hans Rosling uses his cool data tools to show how countries are pulling themselves out of poverty. He demos Dollar Street, comparing households of varying income levels worldwide. Then he does something really amazing. (Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Jun 26, 2007) [20:55 long. 197,775 views 6/2012] Also titled as

2006 TED: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen by Hans Rosling. You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world." (Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Jan 14, 2007) [20:36 long. 393,123 views]

2006: No more Boring Data by Hans Rosling. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling uses an amazing new presentation tool, Gapminder, to present data that debunks several myths about world development. Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder, a nonprofit that brings vital global data to life. (Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, CA.) Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Jan 16, 2007 [20:36 long. 730,158 views 6/2012]

2010: How to use Gapminder Desktop by Hans Rosling. Hans Rosling shows how to use Gapminder Desktop to present global trends. (Uploaded by Gapcast on Jul 5, 2010) [3:44 long. 74,745 views 6/2012]

2010: Google's Public Data Explorer: A New Tool for Visualizing Information by Ola Rosling. Using Google's new Public Data Explorer tool, Ola Rosling demonstrates the effectiveness of visualizing datasets. Looking toward the next political election, Rosling hopes voters will use the tool to answer questions like: How was the money spent? Where are the biggest problems? Ola Rosling of Google Public Data gives a presentation titled, "Google Public Data Explorer" at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. This program was recorded on April 18, 2010. Ola Rosling co-founded the Gapminder Foundation and led the development of Trendalyzer, a software that converts time series statistics into animated, interactive and comprehensible graphics. The aim of his work is to promote a fact-based world view through increased use and understanding of freely accessible public data. In March 2007, Google acquired the Trendalyzer software, where Rosling and his team are now scaling up their tools and making them freely available for any individual or organization to use for analyzing and visualizing data. (Uploaded by ForaTv on Jun 2, 2010) Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/18/Logan_Symposium_Google_Public_Data_Explorer [3:18 long. 9,725 views 6/2012]

On their website they describe themselves as a modern museum that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet. Hans Rosling is Professor of Global Health at Karolinska Institute and Director of the Gapminder Foundation. Hans has given several talks for TED.com and they have become some of the most popular TEDTalks of all times.

The Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship is recognised around the world as a leading academic facility in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship. The school utilises the exciting and diverse academic environments of its member institutions (KI, KTH, SSE, Stockholm University and Konstfack), gathering their innovative and entrepreneurial competencies all under one roof in a joint education programme. Read more at http://sses.se

Open Entrepreneurship is an open platform for knowledge sharing and collaboration between entrepreneurs, innovators, companies, business leaders, students, universities, and scientists Our mission is to inspire the future entrepreneurs of the world, by organizing the world's open knowledge on entrepreneurship and innovation. Read more at http://www.openentrepreneurship.com (Uploaded by OpenEntrepreneurship on Oct 15, 2009)

2011: Joy of Stats Hans Rosling says there’s nothing boring about stats, and then goes on to prove it. A one-hour long documentary produced by Wingspan Productions and broadcast by BBC, 2010. A DVD is available to order from Wingspan Productions. Director & Producer; Dan Hillman, Executive Producer: Archie Baron. ©Wingspan Productions for BBC, 2010 [59:21 long]

Hans Rosling's famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport's commentator's style to reveal the story of the world's past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before - using augmented reality animation.

2011: Crime spotting: Joy of Stats (1/6) Crime maps have just come to the UK -- but their use was pioneered in San Francisco, as Hans Rosling discovered. (Uploaded by OUlearn on Feb 2, 2011 ) [4:58 long. 18,066 views 6/2012]

2011: Averages: Joy of Stats (2/6) Hans Rosling explains why the average Swede has fewer than two legs -- and what this tells us about the use and misuse of averages. (Uploaded by OUlearn on Feb 2, 2011) [3:17 long. 7,697 views 6/2012]

2011: Florence Nightingale: Joy of Stats (3/6). Florence Nightingale's sharp eye and clean presentation of statistics saved more lives than her nursing work in the Crimea. Hans Rosling explains why. (Uploaded by OUlearn on Feb 2, 2011) [3:42 long. 9,020 views 6/2012]

2011: 200 Countries, 200 years, in four minutes: Joy of Stats (4/6). Hans Rosling uses data visualisation to tell the story of how less developed nations started to catch up on the West. In this spectacular section of 'The Joy of Stats' he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers - in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for every country since 1810, Hans shows how the world we live in is radically different from the world most of us imagine. (Uploaded by OUlearn on Feb 2, 2011) [4:57 long. 4,919 6/2012]

2011: Correlation: Joy of Stats (5/6). Because two things happen, it doesn't mean they're related. Hans Rosling explains why correlation causes confusion. (Uploaded by OUlearn on Feb 2, 2011) [3:38 long. 8,642 views 6/2012]

2011: Automatic translation: Joy of Stats (6/6). Hans Rosling meets the team at Google using numbers to break down the barriers between languages. (Uploaded by OUlearn on Feb 2, 2011) [4:10 long. 4,770 views 6/2012]

2011: Joy of Stats, Intro. Spanish subtitles. Es la introducción al documental "The Joy of Stats" del profesor sueco Hans Rosling, en el que presenta la estadística como una disciplina imprescindible para entender el mundo de hoy en día, llena de posibilidades y ¡nada aburrida! (Uploaded by aarreguianasagasti on Feb 20, 2012) [1:11 long. 254 views]

2011: Understanding Official Statistics. Eric Swanson of the World Bank discusses statistical literacy from the ground up. "What you want to know about your data before you use it." "This [ground-up analysis] may not be suitable for teaching at the undergraduate levels." This talk was given at the ESDS International 6th Annual Conference held in London in November 2010. (Uploaded by ESDSInternational on Sep 30, 2011) [24:12 long. 80 views 6/2012]

2010: John Pullinger video: Chair of the getstats statistical literacy campaign John Pullinger outlines the level of statistical literacy in the UK adult population at the launch of the Royal Statistical Society's ten-year getstats campaign. (Uploaded by WildStrawberryComms on Oct 21, 2010) [3:19 long. 98 views 6/2012]

Peter Holmes Keynote at ICOTS-6 (July 7-12, 2002 Cape Town, S. Africa): Video All wmv(600mb). Part1 wmv (300mb) Part2 wmv (280mb) Audio-only Over many years I have been attempting to improve statistical literacy in the population by changing the school curriculum. All such attempts have to be put in the general context of teaching, learning and assessing the subject. Ideally these should complement and reinforce each other. In practice they often conflict, in particular assessment can distort the learning process. In this talk I shall consider the nature of these conflicts and how they might be overcome in practice, giving examples from a lifetime's practical experience.

BBC - The Code - The Wisdom of the Crowd [4:50] BBC's prof. Marcus du Sautoy explains how a group of people know more than one individual. Amazing stuff! The explanation is not hard to understand, but still it is hard to believe. In his paper "Vox Populi" published in Nature, March 7, 1907, Sir Francis Galton investigated this wisdom at a Fat Stock and Poultry Exhibition. Attendees were asked to guess the dressed weight of an ox. The median of the crowd's guesses was 1207 lbs., so the crowd was off by only 9 pounds out of 1198 or less than 0.8%. This was better than any individual guess, even from the experts. Much to his surprise he concluded that "This result is, I think, more creditable to the trust-worthiness of a democratic judgment than might have been expected."

Confounding Variables by Steve Mays Influence of game levels on scores confounded by distance between gamer and screen. Uploaded Aug 24, 2011

Confounding and Potential Effect Modifier. [43:22] Public Health 250A - Lecture 27: Confounding I; A. Reingold UC Berkeley. The Third Variable Problem. Notion of a third variable interfering with our ability to understand the relation between an exposure and an outcome. 1) Mixing effects. 2) Three a-priori criteria 3) Collapsibility [Comparability of Gross and Adjusted Measures] 4) Counter-factuals. "While we in Epidemiology obsess about this [confounding factors] all the time; people in the social sciences don't seem to worry about it too much as far as I can tell." "Think 3D". Published on Oct 31, 2011.

2018 Schield interviews Ryan Dunlap on Data Analytics; Feb 25. WMV raw footage:
Part 1 (20 min; 100mb), Part 2 (1.5 min; 7 mb), Part 3 (2 min; 10mb) and Part 4 (1 min; 7 mb).