Today's Questions: 1) What is development? 2) How can statistics help us understand the world? Today's Goals: 1) Watch a handful of high quality TED talks. 2) Take the Gapminder Quiz with a partner. Watch TED Talks The story of a man who built a windmill to bring electricity to his village. Meet Han Rosling. He's an economist who brings stats to life with exceptional visual representation. He focuses on global development issues-- human rights, environment, education, economic growth, health, and culture. Watch this to get a sense of what he's interested in and to provide context for the more in depth TED talk that's linked below. The seemingly impossible is possible. "The mission of Gapminder Foundation is to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based worldview that everyone can understand. We started the Ignorance Project to investigate what the public know and don’t know about basic global patterns and macro-trends. We use surveys to ask representative groups of people simple questions about key-aspects of global development." www.gapminder.org
Gapminder Quiz Let's learn how to use the Gapminder Map with a team-based quiz! For each quiz you find a link to the graph in which the graph has been adjusted to fit the quiz. If you have problems in following links in the quizzes you can adjust the graph manually. Open one graph for each quiz question and: • Select “time” for the x-axis • Make sure the trails-box is tick-marked • Make the adjustments described for the quiz in question • Once you selected some bubbles: Pull the opacity bar to the left so that only the selected bubbles are visible.
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