Professor Hans Rosling, a statistician and epidemiologist who brought dramatic flair to animated visualizations of dry public health data, has died in Finland of pancreatic cancer, according to ...

Rosling’s presentations are grounded in solid statistics (often drawn from United Nations data), illustrated by the visualization software he developed. The animations transform development ...

Talk about bringing the data alive. This clip of Hans Rosling’s work shows the great power of dynamic data visualization. Here we see the entire world get both healthier and wealthier (or or at ...

Hans Rosling has become an online star by using data visualisations to make serious points about health policy and development ...

But the way Hans Rosling used them to show data and make it interesting was a huge eye-opener for the visualization community. Who knew that you could use visualization not just to analyze data ...

Hans Rosling, co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation, visualizes global health trends and population numbers — transforming dry poverty and development statistics into Internet sensations.

See also Rosling’s widely acclaimed TED Talk video and Emily Cunningham’s in-depth review of Gapminder’s DIY data desktop data visualization tool here at ReadWriteWeb from August.

“Data visualization is a popular buzzword, but there is a difficult challenge in showing data in a manner simple enough to understand, but nuanced enough to display a number of important features in ...

A visualization maps the impact of US National Institutes of Health funding strategies on authorship networks (top) and publication output (bottom). Credit: Hans Rosling ...