{"id":171,"date":"2009-11-19T11:45:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T15:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/?p=171"},"modified":"2009-11-11T11:50:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:50:55","slug":"ted-thursday-hans-rosling-shows-the-best-stats-youve-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"TED Thursday: Hans Rosling shows the best stats you&#8217;ve ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visualization seems to be the theme of the week, so let&#8217;s finish it off with a 20-minute TED talk from one of the most influential data visualization specialists out there:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html\" class=\"broken_link\">Hans Rosling shows you the best stats you&#8217;ve ever seen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since being bough by Google in 2007, Rosling&#8217;s Gapminder software has powered some Google spreadsheet gadgets, which means you can use these visualization techniques if you don&#8217;t mind keeping your data in Google Docs.? Gapminder.org says that a desktop version is &#8220;in development.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visualization seems to be the theme of the week, so let&#8217;s finish it off with a 20-minute TED talk from one of the most influential data visualization specialists out there: Hans Rosling shows you the best stats you&#8217;ve ever seen Since being bough by Google in 2007, Rosling&#8217;s Gapminder software has powered some Google spreadsheet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ted-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/asist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}