Professor Hans Rosling, the founder of graphics from gapminder, yesterday, at the age of 68 died. The Swedish professor lost a battle with pancreatic cancer, a diagnosis that he was a year ago. Rosling became well-known after he a TED-talk held about statistics, called ” the best statistics you’ve ever seen'. The presentation gave him the reputation as the ” Jedi master of data visualisation'.
Rosling was especially known for his lively presentations, in which he and data and animations of worldwide developments explained. In addition, he was a professor of health at sweden’s Karolinska Institute. In 2007 he decided here, however, as well as a full stop, for all of his time to spend on graphics from gapminder. Graphics from gapminder allows users to create their own data visualizations.
In the presentation that him worldwide fame, he used animated bubble charts to show how developing countries get closer to the indicators for developed countries in the west. The entire presentation he gave in the style of a sports reporter.
Later, Rosling is also the program Don’t Panic: The Truth About Population on BBC 2. This was more a demonstration on how British phd students in the worse did than the chimpanzees in a test about the knowledge about developing countries.
The professor found it especially nice to myths about the changing world to disprove. This involves, for example, the fear of overpopulatie, because children increasingly continue to live. According to the website of graphics from gapminder, wild Rosling also a different world view-drop that most people have after they have news to read.
In 2012 came Rosling in the list 100 Most Influential People of Time. He gave his life advice to leaders of charities, of tech, and politicians like Al Gore. Graphics from gapminder, writes on its site: "Hans is not alive anymore, but he will always be with us and we let his dream about a fact-based look at the world never die!"
The picture of Hans Rosling is created by Jörgen Hildebrandt and made available by the Karolinska Institute.
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