Posts Tagged “rosling”

Hans Rosling’s Moving Bubbles

Monday I posted a link to Hans Rosling’s video on the News/Death ratio.  Hans Rosling founded the Gapminder foundation in 2005.  According to the foundation’s website his mission was to “To promote sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, [...]



News/Death Ratio

Here’s a great little video by the always entertaining Prof. Hans Rosling where he uses his Gapminder software to demonstrate the disproportionate coverage of the Swine Flu in the media compared to other diseases such as TB.