Having spent much of dinner tonight talking about global development, I was reminded of this fantastic clip by Hans Rosling, tracking the income and life expectancy of 200 countries over 200 years in a four minute animated graph.
If the Swedish chef did big data it would look something like this:
(H/T: J.W.)
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