No more boring statistics. I saw the TED talk that Hans gave on this same subject where he used slides in the presentation and a semi-interactive statistics graph to represent the state of mortality, health and wealth for every country in the world since the year 1810. The numbers were interesting and eye opening, but when he presents the data in this immersive fashion, it really makes you sit up and say WOW. Get engaged by seeing the numbers.
I also found the data more familiar when he presents it from left to right, low to high in this new version. The original TED presentation was from lower right to upper left and just did not seem correct to me.
If all data was presented in this easily understandable way, I think we would find it more engaging and relevant. National Debt anyone?