Jon's Blog » TED http://opalfruits.net/blog Philosophy, economics, politics, programming and funny videos Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:13:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Visit TED http://opalfruits.net/blog/index.php/2008/09/23/visit-ted/ http://opalfruits.net/blog/index.php/2008/09/23/visit-ted/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:52:06 +0000 Jon http://opalfruits.net/blog/?p=56 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):

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