The Joy of Statistics
Again drawing on Dan Colman’s Open Culture:
Last month, we posted a dazzling clip – Hans Rosling tracing health trends within 200 countries over 200 years, using 120,000 data points, all in 4 minutes. Pretty quickly you saw why Rosling has earned a reputation for presenting data in extremely imaginative ways. The video was an outtake from a BBC documentary called “The Joy of Stats,” which is now fully available online. It runs 59 minutes and takes you on a “rollercoaster ride through the wonderful world of statistics.” When it’s all over, you’ll never doubt that stats can change how you understand our world.
Note: If this whets your appetite to learn statistics, then check out the free courses in the Math Section of our Free Online Course collection. Also find stats textbooks in our Free Textbooks collection.
