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Professor of International Health and Data Visualization Expert
About Hans Rosling
In 2006, standing on stage with a washing machine, Hans Rosling demonstrated how rising incomes in developing countries weren’t abstract GDP figures, they meant families buying appliances, sending children to school, and living longer. That moment crystallized his life’s mission: dismantling the ‘gap instinct’, the false binary of ‘us vs. them’, rich vs. poor, West vs. Rest, using data not as authority but as shared evidence. He co-founded Gapminder to turn UN and World Bank datasets into dynamic, publicly accessible tools like Trendalyzer, which animated decades of health and wealth data across 200+ countries. His lectures didn’t begin with charts; they began with questions that exposed unconscious bias, ‘Where do most girls aged 12, 14 attend secondary school?’, then revealed surprising, hopeful answers grounded in real trends. Rosling insisted that progress was neither inevitable nor illusory, but measurable, uneven, and deeply human, and that understanding it required humility, curiosity, and the right visualization at the right time.
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- “How did you use bubble charts to debunk the myth of 'developing vs. developed' countries?”
- “What data convinced you that child mortality was falling faster than experts predicted?”
- “Why did you insist on using income-per-person instead of national averages in your talks?”
- “Can you walk me through how you built Trendalyzer step by step?”