Nobody Presents Data Like Hans Rosling.
A global health researcher with a panache for concocting humour with "deadly serious" subjects, Professor Hans Rosling is, by far, one of the most interesting academics around.
He co-founded the Gapminder Foundation and developed Trendalyzer, an interactive software for statistics which Google promptly acquired. (Now, say "Wow!") The animations transform development statistics into moving bubbles and flowing curves that make global trends clear, intuitive and even playful.
If that doesn't whet your appetite, what about his sword-swallowing antics at TED 2007 to drive home the main message - "the seemingly impossible is possible"?
Watch the following video as he reveals New Insights on Poverty.
Be amazed, intrigued and awed. =)
More About Hans Rosling :
He co-founded the Gapminder Foundation and developed Trendalyzer, an interactive software for statistics which Google promptly acquired. (Now, say "Wow!") The animations transform development statistics into moving bubbles and flowing curves that make global trends clear, intuitive and even playful.
If that doesn't whet your appetite, what about his sword-swallowing antics at TED 2007 to drive home the main message - "the seemingly impossible is possible"?
Watch the following video as he reveals New Insights on Poverty.
Be amazed, intrigued and awed. =)
More About Hans Rosling :
- Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and Director of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system.
- On 21 August 1981, he discovered an outbreak of a formerly unknown paralytic disease and the investigations that followed earned him a Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 1986.
- He spent two decades studying outbreaks of this disease in remote rural areas across Africa and supervised more than 10 PhD students.
- He has been health advisor to WHO, UNICEF and several aid agencies.
- In 1993 he co-founded Médecins sans frontières in Sweden and since 2005, has been a member of the International Group of the Swedish Academy of Science.
- At Karolinska Institutet he was head of the Division of International Health (IHCAR) from 2001 to 2007. As chairman (1998-2004) of Karolinska International Research and Training Committee he started health research collaborations with universities in Asia, Africa, Middle East and Latin America.
- He started new courses on Global Health, co-authors a textbook on Global Health and promotes a fact based world view.
posted by whimsical_fantasies at 11:06 PM
2 Comments:
Hello, Hans Rosling asked me to write and thank you for your kind words. If you are interested in more from Hans and Gapminder don't forget to go to our website www.gapminder.org that contains more videos by Hans, for example one short screen cast uploaded just last week.
And since Google acquired Trendalyzer, we have actually continued to develop Gapmidner World with a lot more data, now you can find over 200 different indicators some with data from 1800.
Staffan Landin, Gapminder
Dear Staffan,
Thank you for dropping by and leaving a message here.
I'm humbled and awed by Dr. Hans Rosling's achievements. I've visited the Gapminder website and will certainly view the video clips which feature Dr. Rosling.
I've also shared this particular clip with my friends on Facebook.
We do hope that Dr Rosling will continue to establish the right doctrines and demolish stereotypes with his confounding research and statistics.
Yours Sincerely,
Michelle
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