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My Hero - Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling
Professor of International Health, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden Director Gapminder Foundation www.gapminder.org
Hans Rosling (born1948 in Uppsala, Sweden) is Professor of International Health at Karolinska Institutet and Director of the Gapminder Foundation, which developed the Trendalyzer software system.
From 1967 to 1974 he studied statistics and medicine at Uppsala University, and in 1972 he studied public health at St John's Medical College, Bangalore.
He became a licensed physician in 1976 and from 1979 to 1981 he served as District Medical Officer in Nacala in northern Mozambique.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling
Hans Rosling knows that statistics can change the world—if he can only get the right people to pay attention to them. To make that happen, he has spearheaded the development of Trend-alyzer, a software package that sends stolid data into fluid motion by creating animations of economic, social, and health statistics evolving through time. Nations race across the screen through decades of progress in a few seconds, allowing undetected trends and buried connections to leap out at viewers. The dramatic animations are already changing the perspectives of political leaders, entrepreneurs, and activists around the globe.
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Comment by Rahul Dewanjee on March 17, 2010 at 8:43am
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Hi Sara! Thank you for posting this article. It's a pleasure seeing Hans Rosling speaking at TED. Another +1 for Knowledge Share
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