
The Swedish physician and statistics expert Hans Rosling died today, age 68, from pancreatic cancer. Humanosphere has met with and reported…
The Swedish physician and statistics expert Hans Rosling died today, age 68, from pancreatic cancer. Humanosphere has met with and reported…
Some 12 million Syrians are no longer living in their homes due to the ongoing civil war. The majority of…
The media, Humanosphere included, have put out a flurry of stories this past week or so focused on the call…
A leading aid and development expert is challenging a popular claim made by Bill and Melinda Gates, health statistics wizard…
Rosling is strikingly upfront about the limitations of data. Sometimes, the problem is that different countries measure things – like unemployment – in different ways, he says. In other cases, there are real uncertainties in the data that must be assessed: child mortality statistics are quite precise, whereas maternal mortality figures are not; global poverty measurements are infrequent and uncertain.
Given the recent hooh-hah about the global human population on Earth supposedly reaching 7 billion, it’s worth taking another look…
Here is the inimitable master of animated information, Hans Rosling, talking about the Millennium Development Goals for yet another one…
The inimitable master of visual information, Hans Rosling, talks about the upside and the downside of the world washing-machine index…
Visualizing the world getting better, thanks to data master Hans Rosling of Gapminder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo