You've probably never heard of Hans Rosling, but he was the rock star of statistics presentation. Sound oxymoronic? When I stumbled across his work a few years ago I was reminded that presentation is nine-tenths of the law. How you tell a story is often just as important as the story itself, and Hans Rosling pulled the human stories out of piles of data and made them sing with his Gapmider software. The NPR story links to videos of some of his best presentations. Oh, and he was also an amateur sword swallower (see end of this video).
Peace Hans.
Peace Hans.