Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world
האנס ואולה רוסלינג: איך לא להיות בור בנוגע לעולם
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.
אתם הרבה יותר מהירים מאשר באוניברסיטאות
הם לא מפסיקים לחשוב, לחשוב, לחשוב.
thinking, thinking, thinking.
enough food for the day.
אוכל לעבור יום.
eruption, whatever, droughts.
מה שלא יהיה, בצורות.
Swedes answer worse than random.
אם כן השוודים ענו גרוע יותר מתשובה אקראית.
נשים בבתי ספר.
twice as good as the Swedes,
פחות או יותר.
according to the worst places,
בהתייחס למקומות הגרועים ביותר,
למגר את העוני הקיצוני.
אולה רוסלינג. (צחוק)
גרוע יותר מתשובות אקראיות,
גמל עם שתי דבשות,
כמעט מיליארד, שם,
understand where the majority is,
public and the Swedish answered.
global health in that country?
לבריאות ציבורית במדינה הזאת?
עשה כותרות,
passed the test," he said.
איש תקשורת שעבר את המבחן", הוא אמר.
media doesn't know themselves.
אבל קודם כל,
מדוע אנחנו כל כך בורים,
when they went to school,
האינטואיציה האנושית שלנו.
use our intuition against us,
באינטואיציה שלנו נגדנו,
עם נגיד 250 עובדות.
are we going to do with it?
מה אנו הולכים לעשות איתה?
עולמית מטורפת כזאת.
לחוזק שלנו שוב.
טובות יותר במבחנים שלנו.
להיות מאוד, מאוד עשירים
והיערכות לאסונות טבע.
דברים מן הסוג הזה.
school, these kinds of things.
על דברים שאני מפחד מהם,
about things I'm afraid of,
things that are also great.
כך אתם צריכים לחשוב.
That's how you should think.
אנו יכולים להבין את זה.
succeeding, we can understand it.
שמבוססת על עובדות,
על השינוי עד להיום, 2014.
ראיתם כיצד היא נעה?
International Monetary Fund, website.
קרן הכסף הבין לאומית.
five years of GDP per capita.
חמש שנים לתוך העתיד,
בכל מדינה היא זהה.
of each country is the same.
בשביל 20 השנים הבאות
מה שהיה מתרחש בניסיון.
experiment what might actually happen.
outnumbered in the rich consumer market.
המערב נעקף בשוק הצרכנים העשירים.
GDP per capita into the future.
מהצרכנים העשירים
a company to use this certificate
תשתמשנה בתעודה הזאת
בעתיד יהיו מבוססות עובדתית.
based decisions in the future.
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