I recently shared how TED does such a lovely job of choreographing the talks so that at the conference you don't get too overwhelmed with data, and in fact lovely breaks are programmed in to allow your brain time to absorb and digest in a very unconcious way.

So, following on in my promised gemini-style theme here are another two gems:

The first is Carlo Rotti (oh my goodness, the data visualisations, the flying pixels, water curtains, the tags to track where your rubbish really goes, the ideas - fasten your seatbelts people this is one of the GREAT TED talks from a technology point of view):