Hans Rosling - debunking third-world myths with data (2007)

Hans Rosling (1948 - 2017), a Swedish physician, researcher and academic (Wikipedia), ignited a debate surrounding preconceptions about the state of the world, between what was once thought of as the third-world, developing and western economies.

(illustration image from Rosling's TED Talk of 2007)

In this TED Talk (2007) Rosling seeks to reveal the relationships between investment in public services, in Aid, GDP, human development factors, trends and linkages over time.  Rosling presents using a set of startling animated data-driven visualisations generated with the then new suite of design tools and data indices gathered under the banner of gapminder.org.