By the end of this workshop, you'll know where to start looking for data, how to start understanding data in published sources, and where to go for more help.
Hans Rosling, a Swedish medical researcher and statistician, is well known for using data visualization to speak about international public health issues. This video, "200 countries, 200 years, 4 minutes", plots life expectancy against income for 200 countries over a 200 year time span.