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Hans Rosling: Data visionary and educator dies aged 68 | Hans Rosling: Data visionary and educator dies aged 68 |
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Hans Rosling, a Swedish professor of global health and well-known public educator, has died aged 68, his Gapminder foundation has announced. | 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 year ago and died in Uppsala, Sweden. | Mr Rosling was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year ago and died in Uppsala, Sweden. |
He was known for lively presentations that used data and animation to explain global development in a compelling way. | |
His Gapminder co-founders said that they would continue to fight for "his dream of a fact-based worldview". | His Gapminder co-founders said that they would continue to fight for "his dream of a fact-based worldview". |
Mr Rosling was a professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute but decided to "drop out" in 2007 to dedicate his time to Gapminder, which allows users to create their own data visualisations. | Mr Rosling was a professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute but decided to "drop out" in 2007 to dedicate his time to Gapminder, which allows users to create their own data visualisations. |
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He co-founded the foundation with his son Ola Rosling and daughter-in-law Anna Ronlund in 2005. | |
In a statement announcing his death, they said the time he dedicated to Gapminder "made him a world-famous public educator, or Edutainer as he liked to call it". | |
Hans Rosling became widely known after a talk he gave at a Technology, Media, Design (TED) conference in 2006 called "The best statistics you've never seen" was watched millions of times online. | |
In it, he used animated bubble charts to show how developing countries were catching up in development indicators with the West, presenting in the style of a sports commentator. | |
Mr Rosling presented Don't Panic: The Truth About Population on BBC2 in 2013, which included a demonstration of how British university graduates would be outperformed by chimpanzees in a test of knowledge about developing countries. | |
He was listed as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People globally in 2012 and gave advice to UN leaders, technology company executives and globe-trotting politicians like Al Gore. |