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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.
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
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
Rosling was a voice of reason and sanity. He will be missed.
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