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The best stats you've ever seen - Hans Rosling

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You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world."

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According to Rosling, why isn’t the Internet a robust resource for accessing publicly funded data?

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People often have to pay up to access data

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Presentation of the data is mind numbingly boring

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It’s clunky—data archives have difficult navigation, too many passwords to remember

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All of the above

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None of the above—data storage infrastructure is needed instead for vast archive of YouTube ‘talking dog’ videos

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