Hans Rosling- The joy of statistics

The data visualisation philosophy was championed by the late Swedish physician, academic, and public speaker Hans Rosling.

Rosling argued that data didn’t have to be boring. He believed that when displayed in a visualised form, data could tell detailed stories about people, organisations and countries, giving its audience valuable insights that would have otherwise been lost in mind-numbing tables and charts. Rosling always wanted to make statistics fun because he knew data was valuable only if people had the inclination to understand it and process it.

You have 4 minutes and 47 seconds to  see  a really cool video in which Rosling, who died in 2017, takes us through 200 years of global development using animated data. Statistics has never been this enjoyable.