Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world
Hans a Ola Roslingovi: Jak se zbavit neznalosti o světě
In Hans Rosling’s hands, data sings. Global trends in health and economics come to vivid life. And the big picture of global development—with some surprisingly good news—snaps into sharp focus. Full bioOla Rosling - Director of the Gapminder Foundation
Ola Rosling is the director and co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation. Previously, he was the Google Public Data product manager. Full bio
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faster than I do it at universities.
rychlejší než univerzitní studenti.
thinking, thinking, thinking.
Jen pořád přemýšlejí.
enough food for the day.
- nemají dost jídla na den.
eruption, whatever, droughts.
sucha - cokoliv.
od odborníků na katastrofy,
Swedes answer worse than random.
ženy ve škole.
twice as good as the Swedes,
Podle mě je to tak,
according to the worst places,
ale chybí nám většina.
skoncovat s extrémní chudobou.
(Smích)
než nahodilé,
Tak to bylo v roce 1975.
velblouda s dvěma hrby,
skoro miliardu lidí,
understand where the majority is,
pochopit, kde je většina,
proti spalničkám a další,
public and the Swedish answered.
global health in that country?
profesor světového zdraví?
milióny lidí odpověděly,
passed the test," he said.
ten test nezvládl."
se sdělovacími prostředky USA.
média Evropské unie.
media doesn't know themselves.
samy nevědí.
Ano, mám nápad, ale hlavně
není vaše vina.
proč jsme nevědomí,
město v severním Švédsku.
a navíc začneme chodit do školy
when they went to school,
když chodili do školy sami,
jak si vybrat příběh,
protože je senzační.
ve Švédsku celé týdny.
spoustu divných myšlenek
naše lidská intuice.
čeho jsme se báli,
příčinu tam, kde není,
proč jsou věci naopak.
use our intuition against us,
naši intuici proti nám
ohrožené druhy, lidská práva,
některé z nich,
která jsou jejich oblíbená fakta,
dejme tomu 250 faktů.
are we going to do with it?
s tím krátkým seznamem?
nebo možná zpravodajské agentury,
dobře informované o světě.
tenhle šílený dotazník.
- a tady jsou.
znovu udělat naši sílu.
Sami jste si to mysleli.
většina věcí se zlepšuje.
v našich testech.
že je jeden hrb.
velmi, velmi bohatí,
nebo připravenost na přírodní katastrofy.
school, these kinds of things.
ale ve světových statistikách
about things I'm afraid of,
kterých se bojím,
jiná náboženství,
things that are also great.
nebezpečné i významné.
That's how you should think.
Tak byste měli uvažovat.
byste pravděpodobně
succeeding, we can understand it.
povede, můžeme tomu porozumět.
podložený fakty,
z roku 1975.
Evropské unie a Severní Ameriky.
ostatních zemí a Západu
doteď, do roku 2014.
Viděli jste, jak se hýbe?
International Monetary Fund, website.
na stránky Mezinárodního měnového fondu.
five years of GDP per capita.
na hlavu na příštích pět let.
pět let do budoucnosti,
of each country is the same.
každé země bude stejná.
pro dalších 20 let
experiment what might actually happen.
experiment, co by se mohlo opravdu stát.
outnumbered in the rich consumer market.
převahu na bohatém spotřebitelském trhu.
GDP per capita into the future.
produktu na hlavu v budoucnosti.
bohatých spotřebitelů
a company to use this certificate
aby firma použila tento certifikát,
based decisions in the future.
podložená fakty.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Hans Rosling - Global health expert; data visionaryIn Hans Rosling’s hands, data sings. Global trends in health and economics come to vivid life. And the big picture of global development—with some surprisingly good news—snaps into sharp focus.
Why you should listen
Even the most worldly and well-traveled among us have had their perspectives shifted by Hans Rosling. A professor of global health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, his work focused on dispelling common myths about the so-called developing world, which (as he pointed out) is no longer worlds away from the West. In fact, most of the Third World is on the same trajectory toward health and prosperity, and many countries are moving twice as fast as the west did.
What set Rosling apart wasn't just his apt observations of broad social and economic trends, but the stunning way he presented them. Guaranteed: You've never seen data presented like this. A presentation that tracks global health and poverty trends should be, in a word: boring. But in Rosling's hands, data sings. Trends come to life. And the big picture — usually hazy at best — snaps into sharp focus.
Rosling's presentations were grounded in solid statistics (often drawn from United Nations and World Bank data), illustrated by the visualization software he developed. The animations transform development statistics into moving bubbles and flowing curves that make global trends clear, intuitive and even playful. During his legendary presentations, Rosling took this one step farther, narrating the animations with a sportscaster's flair.
Rosling developed the breakthrough software behind his visualizations through his nonprofit Gapminder, founded with his son and daughter-in-law. The free software — which can be loaded with any data — was purchased by Google in March 2007. (Rosling met the Google founders at TED.)
Rosling began his wide-ranging career as a physician, spending many years in rural Africa tracking a rare paralytic disease (which he named konzo) and discovering its cause: hunger and badly processed cassava. He co-founded Médecins sans Frontièrs (Doctors without Borders) Sweden, wrote a textbook on global health, and as a professor at the Karolinska Institut in Stockholm initiated key international research collaborations. He's also personally argued with many heads of state, including Fidel Castro.
Hans Rosling passed away in February 2017. He is greatly missed.
Hans Rosling | Speaker | TED.com
Ola Rosling - Director of the Gapminder Foundation
Ola Rosling is the director and co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation. Previously, he was the Google Public Data product manager.
Why you should listen
Ola Rosling | Speaker | TED.com