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Fast Company reports on the making of Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget video, which was apparently inspired by a wildly popular global health YouTube upload featuring an enthused Hans Rosling. According to the article:
Politicians using YouTube is nothing new. But this is probably the first time a Congressional politician used the medium to galvanize support for that most dreary of Washington topics, the budget.
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The filmmakers, Dan Hayes and Clay Broga, of Washington, D.C.-based Freethink Media, say the video … took its inspiration from a BBC documentary by Swedish global health professor—and stats nerd—Hans Rosling. ‘The Joy of Stats’ uses the same kind of drawing-charts-out-of-thin-air technique to make complicated bits of data accessible, as in the clip posted below the Ryan vid.
