Back in January we wrote about the brilliant video of Hans Rosling presenting Gapminder. This week we are in Istanbul, Turkey for the OECD World Forum on Measuring and Fostering the Progress of Societies. Luckily for us, so is Hans Rosling. We were thrilled at the chance to meet the master of
data liberation! In the photo from left to right are Brian Mulloy (me),
Hans Rosling and Dmitry Dimov. We exchanged many thoughts on the
future of the world's data. Professor Rosling has been thinking about
and working on data for a long time so for us it was like drinking from the fountain of wisdom. He has a sharp sense of humor so we spent much of the time in laughter.
Gapminder has released a new video using some super cool technology for telling stories with data. Here's the video, check it out:
| In the first gapcast from Gapminder Professor Hans Rosling shows how economic growth, public health and sexual rights have changed in Sweden during 300 years. In only 6 minutes he shows life expectancy and GDP per capita of Sweden from 1709 to 2004. With trendalyzer graphics he compares historic Sweden with countries of today. 300 years of Swedish progress covers today´s disparity from Sierra Leone to Japan. Wheras education of midwives started in 1709 it was only in the 1970s that family planning was included in their training. Sexual rights came late in Sweden compared to progress in health and wealth. | |
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wow. those guys wear suits? not the typical bay area entrepreneurs.
Posted by: huned | June 29, 2007 at 11:22 AM
Nah, the suits are just for their European tour. Brian started his recent presentation in Geneva by telling us he had just bought his suit with us serious Europeans in mind. Of course, none of the Geneva audience was wearing a suit. The OECD crowd in Istanbul is probably different.
Posted by: timo | June 30, 2007 at 03:56 AM
It is weird that the video so heavily ties sexual health (condoms, prostitution) with life expectancy. It seems to imply that sexual disease was the primary reason for shortened life expectancy.
Posted by: Chris | July 03, 2007 at 12:19 PM
Here is a pic of the Gapminder guys at work. It was great watching them do their thing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/teamswivel/698412296/in/set-72157600465794150/
Posted by: Sara Wood | July 07, 2007 at 03:42 PM