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Pioneering Data Genius Hans Rosling Passes Away At Age 68 (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader writes: On Tuesday, Sweden's prime minister tweeted that Hans Rosling "made human progress across our world come alive for millions," and the public educator will probably best be remembered as the man who could condense 200 years of global history into four minutes. He was a geek's geek, a former professor of global health who "dropped out" because he wanted to help start a nonprofit about data. Specifically, it urged data-based decisions for global development policy, and the Gapminder foundation created the massive Trendalyzer tool which let users build their own data visualizations. Eventually they handed off the tool to Google who used it with open-source scientific datasets. The BBC describes Rosling as a "public educator" with a belief that facts "could correct 'global ignorance' about the reality of the world, which 'has never been less bad.'" Rosling's TED talks include "The Best Data You've Never Seen" and "How Not To Be Ignorant About The World," and in 2015 he also gave a talk titled "How to Beat Ebola." Hans Rosling died Tuesday at age 68.
"professor-turned-pubic educator".
Okay. I'll definitely not RTFA.
Pubic editor wtf
with a belief that facts "could correct 'global ignorance' about the reality of the world,
As we are seeing first hand, facts don't matter.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
A real genius
in the long run, we're all dead anyway.
He swallowed a sword and died. True story.
So that's why I feel like riding on the wings of Allah when I press the gas pedal of my Lamborghini Diablo on the Al Wahda Street. Speaking of preconceived notions, the lectures were interesting. Maybe non-profits could target their efforts even more precisely with the help of reasonably good and more approachable statistics.
There is no god but Allah and Muhammad (PBUH) is his prophet.
S.P.Q.R.
Data-tracking orwellian scumbag dies, and may he burn in hell!
urged data-based decisions
Can't make data-based decisions without spying on everyone, to collect data about them.
As we are seeing first hand, facts don't matter.
The election showed us that facts matter more than ever; once the facts of Hillary's emails and treatment of Sanders came to light, she lost even though a lot of people disliked Trump a great deal.
The media has showed us that a lack of facts of disaster; the approval rating for traditional media is now at something like 14%.
Facts matter more than ever now, but the facts must be carefully vetted or people will not believe them - with good reason, because so many people are trying to claim things as "facts" that simply are not so.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
As opposed to heresay and anaecdotal evidence, amirite?
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There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet. (more)
Rosling was a voice of reason and sanity. He will be missed.
I prefer PBAJ to PBUH.
I prefer PBAJ to PBUH.
Who's forcing you to convert?
huge amount of statistical crap
agreed. I would put that figure at roughly 67.35%, but only when spouting.
love is just extroverted narcissism
You are confusing the ability of an ignorant person to shoot its own foot off, despite being told not to do it, by well informed people, cause it will hurt - with irrelevance of the facts.
Facts matter. Cause facts are reality.
And reality is a vengeful bitch even when you're paying attention to her every whim.
You may not have noticed it yet cause it's only starting to rain, and you haven't been paying attention, but that what's coming along down the road is a 4-year-long shitstorm.
And the shit that will rain will stink for a long time.
It's what happens when people willfully ignore facts.
They can consider themselves lucky if they only end up losing that one foot.
But the market for cheap battery powered wheelchairs will be YUUUUGEEE!!!
Meaning they will be made in China.
Which IS something Rosling didn't take into account. That while China and India will rise, USA will sabotage itself.
Sad.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
How has the summary and every commenter so far missed his contribution toward clearly presenting the facts of world population growth? Ideas like "peak child", "population fill-in", that population Is going to level off at 11billion within the next 70 years. I've heard a few people criticize Hans' work in population but they never give facts or citations, which Hans provides in spades.
DON'T PANIC â" Hans Rosling showing the facts about population
Maybe he should have tried presenting some alt-facts instead.
Why this animosity. Aren't Jews, Christians and Muslims all children of Abraham. It just seems weird to me that the fundamentalist Christians and Jews should hate the fundamentalist Muslims. I mean Muslims love traditional family values and gun rights. To me it would make a lot more sense if the democrats were trying to carpet bomb the middle east. Christians, Jews, and Muslims all hate female skin. They should be friends.
I am just too over the hill and unhip to truly understand the complex politics that the news media worries about today.
Living in 2017 it is important to realize that this guy got to his position on the backs of blacks and the trans-gendered Latino lesbians who did all of his grunt work. This guy owned slaves. You should therefore discount his life and all he didn't accomplish by himself.
Black Lives matter. Down with America. Viva La Raza
Gosh he tackles some delicate subjects.. his nickname should be Don Quixote
That should be "Sweden's former prime minister". The tweet is by Carl Bildt, prime minister 1991-1994. Sweden's current prime minister is Stefan Löfvén.
Alternativ facts, indeed.
I miss him already. :(
"Trump!!", the new Godwin.
Statistics *is* hocus pocus hearsay. That's how 'experts' have ended up being wrong on nearly everything from financial crashes to elections. But, we'll just keep painting over that. Maybe one of them will get it right eventually. :-)
You probably didn't mean to, but you've inadvertently made my point for me.