From time to time, our blog posts at USDemocrazy may seem a bit incoherent… but we have a good excuse.

As we’re just a bunch of ungroomed college students,  we were most likely half asleep at 3AM when we filed our post (editor: yeah… work on that, please). But when we saw the follow video, it made us wake up and pay attention (quite a feat):

That’s professor Hans Rosling, who is kind of an awesome pioneer as far as graphic statistics go. As a scholar in global health, Dr. Rosling has been helping sleepy people like ourselves see important issues like health and wealth in new ways using statistics.

As students who are constantly looking at charts and tables in boring old books, we can appreciate this.

This clip is from an upcoming BBC production called “The Joy of Stats” which features how statistics are being used in fast, high-tech ways to solve both old and new problems. For instance, just in the four minutes in the video above, Rosling shows through statistics movements and revolutions through history and their affect on the world’s population.

What do you think? Are you finding the joy in stats yet, or will it take more cool videos? (See the Hans Rosling videos on YouTube for some of that.) Does the world look different to you…or are you falling asleep?