Rosling discusses the book Factfulness in 2018

Ola Rosling (born 1 November 1975 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish statistician known for his work for the Gapminder Foundation on changing global quality of life. He is the chairman, director and co-founder of the foundation.[1]

Career

Rosling co-founded the Gapminder Foundation together with his wife Anna Rosling Rönnlund and his father Hans Rosling. Ola led the development of the Trendalyzer software that creates interactive graphics from statistical datasets.[2] The software was bought by Google in 2007[3] and Rosling and his team worked for Google from then on. He became Google's Public Data product manager.[4]

(Left to right) Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling discuss their book "Factfulness" in 2016.

Ola and Anna Rosling collaborated with Hans Rosling and co-authored the book called Factfulness.[5][6]

Publication

References

  1. ^ "Staff". Gapminder Foundation. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  2. ^ Berglof, Annie Maccoby (26 April 2013). "At home: statistician Hans Rosling". Financial Times. ISSN 0307-1766. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  3. ^ "A world in motion". Google Blog. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  4. ^ "Ola Rosling". TED. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Factfulness av Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund (Bok)". Bokus.com (in Swedish). Retrieved 10 January 2019.
  6. ^ Rosling, Hans; Rönnlund, Anna Rosling; Rosling, Ola (3 April 2018). Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Flatiron Books. ISBN 9781250123817.


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