The TED conference is an annual gathering of some of the world’s top thinkers and doers. Fortunately for the rest of us, the website contains a wealth of videos from many of the presentations made at the conferences in the last few years by people such as Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Richard Branson and a whole load of less well known experts-in-their-fields. I’m yet to watch a boring video on the site so I recommend you take a look.

Here’s one I particularly liked as someone with a particular interest in unlocking the information in large data sets and presenting it usefully (you won’t be bored, I promise):