The most interesting part of this for me is watching Hans Rosling walk through a lot of the data. I first saw it as a TED talk, but you can watch them at the gapminder website:
I can really see how statistics are an awesome way to visualise important stuff to people, but when I'm sitting there trying to calculate the the t-value in a question on the average amount of mineral water in a bottle, it's hard not to find it boring.
How do you guys do to connect boring stuff like Stats with the bigger picture?
Edit: I also find his accent extremely funny :-)