The data crew (Prof. Hans Rosling's Gapminder, IBM Many Eyes & Swivel) was mentioned in an article about the beauty of numbers in yesterday's Financial Times. To read the full article you will need a subscription. Professor Rosling has a powerful metaphor he shared with us when we met recently and Simon Briscoe of the Financial Times mentioned it in the article:
'Prof Rosling is a consummate performer but has a simple message. In the same way that "you don't have to pay to walk up a street", he says, information and understanding about our world should be free and widely accessible. "Statistics should be the intellectual sidewalks".'
Please check out the article.
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