NEW! This is an amazing video of how data can be portrayed, merged, visualized in order to help us predict the effect of the environment on man and the effect of man on the environment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5z3e8gC1_qQ

New ways of visualizing data are giving us new kinds of knowledge:

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Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
This TED Talk video shows us how data can be visualized and animated taking us out of the world of pie charts and simple graphs.