Mention statistics to any recent graduate and you’re sure to get a cringing response.  After a visit from Hans Rosling, however, you can expect a much different outcome.  This lively Uppsala professor, medical doctor, public speaker, and statistician has transformed what we used to associate with dry lectures and tedious documents into animated graphics that intrigue and inform – to the delight of global development agents and geography teachers alike.  He has even created a software program that allows widespread access to this educational innovation.  But with the visualization of statistics, and statistics in general, comes a recurring concern: are we using and interpreting them truthfully?

 

Now, more than ever, with so much information readily available across the web, people are looking for their information to be delivered in concise, visually stimulating yet nonetheless entertaining ways.  So what's even better than a static infographic? A medium that takes all this info and makes it move, speak and come to life. The name of the game is animation.