Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world
هانز وأولا روزلينغ: كيف لا تكون جاهلا بأحوال العالم
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.
بكثير حين طرحت السؤال في الجامعات.
thinking, thinking, thinking.
التفكير والتفكير.
enough food for the day.
eruption, whatever, droughts.
انفجار، أي شيء، جفاف.
Swedes answer worse than random.
كانت اسوأ من عشوائية.
النساء في المدرسة.
twice as good as the Swedes,
بمرتين من السويديين،
according to the worst places,
وفقا للأماكن الاسوأ،
حوالي مليار، هناك أكثر،
understand where the majority is,
فهم اين توجد الغالبية،
العالم البالغين من العمر
public and the Swedish answered.
في الولايات المتحدة وفي السويد.
global health in that country?
passed the test," he said.
من الاعلاميين اجتاز الاختبار"
media doesn't know themselves.
لا يعرفون انفسهم.
when they went to school,
use our intuition against us,
تستخدم حدسنا ضدنا،
ومنظمة العفو الدولية واليونيسيف،
are we going to do with it?
ماذا سنفعل بها؟
يجب عليكم تخمين "الأحسن".
يكونوا جدا جدا أغنياء
والاستعداد لمواجهة الكوارث الطبيعية.
school, these kinds of things.
من أصناف تلك الأشياء.
about things I'm afraid of,
حول الأشياء التي أخاف منها،
things that are also great.
التي هي أيضا كبيرة.
That's how you should think.
هكذا كيف يجب أن نفكر.
succeeding, we can understand it.
يمكننا أن نفهم ذلك.
وأميركا الشمالية الحالية .
International Monetary Fund, website.
صندوق النقد الدولي، على شبكة الإنترنت.
five years of GDP per capita.
للناتج المحلي الإجمالي للفرد الواحد.
of each country is the same.
الدخل لكل بلد هو نفسه.
للسنوات الـ20 سنة المقبلة
experiment what might actually happen.
لما قد يحدث في الواقع.
outnumbered in the rich consumer market.
عدد الغرب في السوق الاستهلاكية الغنية.
GDP per capita into the future.
المحلي الإجمالي للفرد في المستقبل.
a company to use this certificate
للشركة ما لاستخدام هذه الشهادة
based decisions in the future.
القرارات المبنية على الحقائق.
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