My husband Dan showed me this talk by Hans Rosling. Rosling was a doctor in rural Africa who co-founded Doctors without Borders, and later served as a professor at the Karolinska Institut in Stockholm. He founded Gapminder (gapminder.com) and developed visualization software you'll see in the talk. It was bought by Google in 2007.
TED TALK: Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
Although he seems to have slightly preceded the "Age of Analytics", his visualizations make sense of large and complex data sets that otherwise present contrasting views of the world. He espouses look at the data to actually see the changes, and to not just take what he calls the "average data". He shows breaking open the data sets into more specific entities that give more information and make better sense.
JUST WATCH HIM!!
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