Hans Rosling, Data Visualization, and Storytelling
Hans Rosling
- Swedish physician, academic and public speaker.
- 1948 - 2017
Gapminder and data storytelling
- Don’t Panic - The Truth about Population (2013)
- Don’t Panic: How to End Poverty in 15 Years (2015)
- “The world is better than you think”
- Book: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
I’m a very serious “possibilist”. That’s something I made up. It means someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason, someone who constantly resists the overdramatic worldview. As a possibilist, I see all this progress, and it fills me with conviction and hope that further progress is possible. This is not optimistic. It is having a clear and reasonable idea about how things are. It is having a worldview that is constructive and useful.
–Han Rosling
Thoughts for evaluation
- Facts are powerful
- Data visulization
- Storytelling and narratives