Materials for in-class discussion, Tuesday, 4/a

Today we'll talk about a different side of big data--the less dangerous part.
I want us to look at a couple of presentations by Hans Rosling, who is widely considered the father of big data-based argument.

Here is the first Rosling presentation

And here is the second one by Rosling

And, moae recently, David McCandless has taken up the torch: with demonstrations using data for all sorts of argumentative purposes