After watching Hans Rosling's statistical experiment and presentation on TED, I certainly have found good examples and ideas to add into a presentation.
I had actually seen this video earlier this semester as it was used by my statistics teacher to show a really cool example of statistics.
The first thing I noticed Rosling doing was adding humor. He joked with the audience that chimpanzees were smarter than his students, and that the professors were just as smart as them. Adding humor keeps the audience attention, but it didn't distract from his presentation at all.
The most important thing that Rosling did was the visual representation of populations and statistics about them. Everything was moving, visually appealing, easy to understand, etc. It didn't stop there though; Rosling was enthusiastic and that added a great deal to his ideas by removing boredom and monotony and replaced it with excitement. What he does here is so much more interesting that any normal presentation. It is truly a good example of a job well done.
I don't know how I would, but I certainly can take away that adding an interesting visual aspect can certainly make the presentation more than a bore. Another thing that would be good to add would be asking the audience questions, and using those questions to show a point, as I think he did during his performance also.
Josh
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