Hans Rosling: No more boring data

This one is for those who find statistics or development talk boring. AWESOME!!

Hans Rosling was born 1948 in Uppsala, Sweden. He is a Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and Director of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system, used in the presentation above. Some components of the Trendalyzer software, particularly the Flash-based Motion Chart gadget, have become available for public use as part of the Google Visualizations. Try the spreadsheet application in Google docs. Its fun.

Rosling has studied statistics and medicine at Uppsala University, and public health at St John's Medical College, Bangalore.

Useful links:

http://www.gapminder.org/

http://www.roslingsblogger.blogspot.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling

http://twitter.com/hansro