With 24 hour a day news coverage and the Internet, the world seems to be getting smaller.
Population, however, is growing quickly.
One-in-a-Million is one thing … one-in-Seven-Billion is another.
With the worldwide population expected to exceed seven billion in 2011, this National Geographic magazine video provides a broad overview of demographic trends that got us to today … and will impact us all tomorrow.
It is interesting, fast-moving, and made me think. Worth the click.
With 24 hour a day news coverage and the Internet, the world seems to be getting smaller.
Population, however, is growing quickly.
One-in-a-Million is one thing … one-in-Seven-Billion is another.
With the worldwide population expected to exceed seven billion in 2011, this National Geographic magazine video provides a broad overview of demographic trends that got us to today … and will impact us all tomorrow.
It is interesting, fast-moving, and made me think. Worth the click.
There is a new version of Google Goggles that is faster and smarter than ever before.
How fast and smart? Google's image-based search app is now powerful enough to finish your Sunday morning Sudoku. Literally.
Take a picture of the puzzle, and the app does the rest. Check out the video below to see Google Goggles in action.
This same tool lets you take a picture of a location and Google will return relevant search results after recognizing where you are and inferring what you might be searching for.
This seems like a pretty big leap towards Jetsons-like living.
Word Lens instantly translates printed words from one language to another using the video camera on your iPhone. You've got to see this.
In a sense, Word Lens is an new form of dictionary. It looks up words for you, and shows them in context. You can use Word Lens on your vacations to translate restaurant menus, street signs, and other things that have clearly printed words.
There is a new version of Google Goggles that is faster and smarter than ever before.
How fast and smart? Google's image-based search app is now powerful enough to finish your Sunday morning Sudoku. Literally.
Take a picture of the puzzle, and the app does the rest. Check out the video below to see Google Goggles in action.
This same tool lets you take a picture of a location and Google will return relevant search results after recognizing where you are and inferring what you might be searching for.
This seems like a pretty big leap towards Jetsons-like living.
Word Lens instantly translates printed words from one language to another using the video camera on your iPhone. You've got to see this.
In a sense, Word Lens is an new form of dictionary. It looks up words for you, and shows them in context. You can use Word Lens on your vacations to translate restaurant menus, street signs, and other things that have clearly printed words.
This video does a good job of explaining the unintended consequences of government programs that attempt to “solve” what is perceived as a problem, yet the solution causes more problems than it solves.
I don’t know anything about the National Inflation Association which produced this video, so it isn’t an endorsement of them. Just thought it was interesting.
Somehow, with nothing more than animated bubble charts, Hans Rosling has become quite famous.
This four-minute clip shows Rosling presenting world development in the context of income versus lifespan. Rosling uses Gapminder, the software he and others had developed, to show multiply varying statistics as animations.
The material is more or less the same as his TedTalks; but this time around, the motion chart isn't projected on a screen. The data is CGI'd into the air where Rosling can pluck and grasp at points as he highlights the significance of specific points in history.
Until you’ve seen Hans Rosling in action you can have no idea just how moving a bunch of blue bubbles moving down a screen can be.
The BBC writes that:
Despite its light and witty touch, the film nonetheless has a serious message – without statistics we are cast adrift on an ocean of confusion, but armed with stats we can take control of our lives, hold our rulers to account and see the world as it really is. What’s more, Hans concludes, we can now collect and analyse such huge quantities of data and at such speeds that scientific method itself seems to be changing.
"I kid you not, statistics is now the sexiest subject on the planet" says Hans Rosling, presenter of The Joy of Stats.
Somehow, with nothing more than animated bubble charts, Hans Rosling has become quite famous.
This four-minute clip shows Rosling presenting world development in the context of income versus lifespan. Rosling uses Gapminder, the software he and others had developed, to show multiply varying statistics as animations.
The material is more or less the same as his TedTalks; but this time around, the motion chart isn't projected on a screen. The data is CGI'd into the air where Rosling can pluck and grasp at points as he highlights the significance of specific points in history.
Until you’ve seen Hans Rosling in action you can have no idea just how moving a bunch of blue bubbles moving down a screen can be.
The BBC writes that:
Despite its light and witty touch, the film nonetheless has a serious message – without statistics we are cast adrift on an ocean of confusion, but armed with stats we can take control of our lives, hold our rulers to account and see the world as it really is. What’s more, Hans concludes, we can now collect and analyse such huge quantities of data and at such speeds that scientific method itself seems to be changing.
"I kid you not, statistics is now the sexiest subject on the planet" says Hans Rosling, presenter of The Joy of Stats.
