dandv is reading
#092: "Debunking 3rd world myths with the best stats you've ever seen".
A speech by Hans Rosling from GapMinder.org.
Yes, things have become much better in Africa or South-east Asia, than you would have thought. Hans presents an excellent piece of software for intuitively visualizing global statistics data. Google has seen the opportunity and made it available at http://tools.google.com/gapminder/

