Talk notes:
- we, as professors, don't have to confront ignorance in the college classroom, we have to confront preconceived notions of how the world is and how countries are culturally, historically, and economically
- we witnessed a social change in asia before we saw economic change in the area.
- shows graph that basically gets at the distribution of survival rate and gdp of each country, showing the diversity within a continent
- improvement of world must be highly contextualized - students get excited when they can use stats tools and data
- this guy invented gapminder.org - linking data to design and write software with world health and poverty data and animate the data with flash and powerpoint, but they need to make the data searchable. They assess 500 variables in the countries using their software. What they need (and the world needs) are databases up, free, graphic, and searchable. He says statistical analyzers won't like this because it won't provide analysis for free.
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