Hans Rosling: Data visionary and educator dies aged 68

Hans Rosling, a Swedish professor of world health and well-known public pedagogue, has died aged 68, his Gapminder foundation has announced.

Mr Rosling was diagnosed with exocrine gland cancer a year agone and died in metropolis, Sweden.
He was known for spirited displays that used information and animation to make a case for world development in an exceedingly compelling method.

His Gapminder co-founders said that they would still fight for "his dream of a fact-based worldview".
Mr Rosling was a faculty member of world health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute however determined to "drop out" in 2007 to dedicate his time to Gapminder, which permits users to produce their own information visualisations.

He co-founded the foundation along with his son Ola Rosling and in-law Pakistani monetary unit Ronlund in 2005.

In a statement announcing his death, they said the time he dedicated to Gapminder "made him a world-famous public pedagogue, or Edutainer as he liked to decision it".

Hans Rosling became widely acknowledged when a speak he gave at a Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference in 2006 known as "The best statistics you've got ne'er seen" was watched millions of times on-line.
In it, he used animated bubble charts to show how developing countries were catching up in development indicators with the West, presenting in the type of a sports announcer.

Mr Rosling bestowed do not Panic: The Truth concerning Population on BBC2 in 2013, which enclosed an indication of however British university graduates would be outperformed by chimpanzees in an exceedingly take a look at of data concerning developing countries.

He enjoyed debunking myths concerning the dynamical world, including fears of huge population due to decreasing kid mortality.

"I've watched people have this 'aha' moment once Hans speaks," Melinda Gates of the Gates Foundation told the journal Nature last year. "He breaks these myths in such a gentle method. I adore him."

Gapminder was set up to produce a view of the globe totally different thereto that the majority would imagine from reading news headlines, its website says.
Facts, Mr Rosling believed, could correct "global ignorance" concerning the reality of the globe, which "has ne'er been less bad".

The Swedish professor was listed as one of Time's one hundred Most prestigious folks globally in 2012 and gave recommendation to charity leaders, technology company executives and globe-trotting politicians like Al Gore.