Hans Rosling Data visionary and educator dies aged 68 BBC News Development, Bbc world


Professor Hans Rosling Foto Bernt Sønvisen Arbeiderpartiet Flickr

Hans Rosling, who passed away earlier this month, made numbers tell significant stories about the world. A self-proclaimed "edutainer" — educator and entertainer — Professor Rosling championed a worldview based on facts.


Prof. Hans Rosling dies at the age of 68 European Skeptics

Hans Rosling knew never to flee from men wielding machetes. "The risk is higher if you run than if you face them," he says. So, in 1989, when an angry mob confronted him at the field laboratory.


VIDEO 'Edutainer' Hans Rosling, Who Taught Us About The World, Has Died Goats and Soda NPR

Facebook LinkedIn Print I first came across Hans Rosling's work while I was trying to make mathematics students fall in love with statistics. His TED talks are inspirational since they present.


[TEASER] More Education, Less Child Mortality Hans Rosling WISE 2013 YouTube

Hans Rosling, a Swedish professor of global health and well-known public educator, has died aged 68, his Gapminder foundation has announced. Mr Rosling was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a.


TED Talks Star Hans Rosling Taught Us To 'Edutain' Our Audiences

Doha, Qatar - The global push to expand access to education could take a lesson from former President George W. Bush, says Swedish academic and celebrated data whiz Hans Rosling. Rosling likes to make his points by surprising connections, sometimes to the point of cognitive dissonance.


RIP Hans Rosling, Who Saw and Explained Our Wonderful World Foundation for Economic Education

Memories of Hans Rosling. Colleagues, friends and ministers today write their own tributes to Hans Rosling. Staffan Bergström, Professor Emeritus of International Health, remembers a fellow commuter from Uppsala, and Foreign Minister Margot Wallström a clear, pedagogical and vital voice. The world has improved in so many ways; but today, just.


Hans Rosling Data visionary and educator dies aged 68 BBC News Development, Bbc world

The free software — which can be loaded with any data — was purchased by Google in March 2007. (Rosling met the Google founders at TED.) Rosling began his wide-ranging career as a physician, spending many years in rural Africa tracking a rare paralytic disease (which he named konzo) and discovering its cause: hunger and badly processed cassava.


New foundation to be started in memory of Hans Rosling

Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world's dominant economic force. At TEDIndia, he graphs global economic growth since 1858 and predicts the exact date that India and China will outstrip the US. 09:47. Hans Rosling.


Dr. Hans Rosling End of the 'Developing World'?

A medical doctor and professor for international health at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, Rosling became famous as the public educator who used statistics to show how the world is changing. He chose this public role after making two significant discoveries.


ONE remembers the incredible work of Professor Hans Rosling ONE

The UN's SDG Moments 2020 was introduced by Malala Yousafzai and Ola Rosling, president and co-founder of Gapminder.. Free tools for a fact-based worldview. Used by millions of people, teachers, journalists and decision makers all over the world.


Legacy of Hans Rosling President's blog

By Hans Rosling Professor of Global Health, Karolinska Institutet Many people don't know about the enormous progress most countries have made in recent decades - or maybe the media hasn't told.


Professor Hans Rosling död SVT Nyheter

Watch Hans Rosling answer huge fact-questions in less than 90 seconds. Massive Ignorance. Beware the shocking results from our Global Knowledge Surveys. Data. Download tables with stats gathered from hundreds of sources. Teach. Teachers. See how teachers use Gapminder in classrooms. Slideshows.


Hans Rosling A truthteller in an age of 'alternative facts' Macleans.ca

The Hans Rosling Center for Population Health stands on the land of the Coast Salish peoples — land that touches the shared waters of all tribes and bands within the Suquamish, Tulalip and Muckleshoot nations.


Hans Rosling Center Population Health

Hans Rosling ( Swedish pronunciation: [ˈhɑːns ˈrûːslɪŋ]; 27 July 1948 - 7 February 2017) was a Swedish physician, academic and public speaker. He was a professor of international health at Karolinska Institute [4] and was the co-founder and chairman of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system.


Hans Rosling by the end of the 1980's in his office at International... Download Scientific

Hans Rosling, the medical doctor, professor of international health and statistician who found joy in hard facts, died on Tuesday from pancreatic cancer in Uppsala, Sweden, surrounded by.


The man who makes data sing MPR News

Truth About Education Data - Hans Rosling - WISE 2013 Focus WISE Channel 34.2K subscribers Subscribe 11K views 9 years ago Data need to tell a story. In this Focus presentation, Hans.