Hans Rosling was a medical doctor, professor of international health and renowned public educator. He was an adviser to the World Health Organization and UNICEF, and co-founded Médecins sans Frontières in Sweden and the Gapminder Foundation. His TED talks have been viewed more than 35 million times, and he was listed as one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Hans died in 2017, having devoted the last years of his life to writing Factfulness.
Ola Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans's son and daughter-in-law, were co-founders of the Gapminder Foundation, and Ola its director from 2005 to 2007 and from 2010 to the present day. After Google acquired the bubble-chart tool called Trendalyzer, invented and designed by Anna and Ola, Ola became head of Google's Public Data Team and Anna the team's senior user experience (UX) designer. They have both received international awards for their work.
"One of the most important books I've ever read--an indispensable
guide to thinking clearly about the world." - Bill Gates
"Hans Rosling tells the story of 'the secret silent miracle of
human progress' as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than
that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent
and teaches readers how to see it clearly." --Melinda
Gates"Factfulness by Hans Rosling, an outstanding international
public health expert, is a hopeful book about the potential for
human progress when we work off facts rather than our inherent
biases." - Former U.S. President Barack Obama"Wonderful... a
passionate and erudite message that is all more moving because it
comes from beyond the grave... His knack for presentation and
delight in statistics come across on every page. Who else would
choose a chart of 'guitars per capita' as a proxy for human
progress?" --The Financial Times"[Factfulness] throws down a
gauntlet to doom-and-gloomers in global health by challenging
preconceptions and misconceptions [and] is a fabulous read,
succinct and lively... This magnificent book ends with a plea for a
factual world view. Rosling was optimistic that this outlook will
spread, because it is a useful navigational tool in a complex
world, and a genuine antidote to negativity and hopelessness."
--Nature
"Like any good statistician, Rosling uses the tools of his trade
(namely, graphs, charts and lots of questionnaires) to argue we're
doing too much feeling and not enough thinking when it comes to
assessing the world...His goal is to change the way we see the
world." --Business Insider"In an accessible, almost folksy prose,
Rosling identifies various reasons why so many of us have ended up
with so many faulty ideas about our world." --Booklist"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." --TED "Three
minutes with Hans Rosling will change your mind about the world."
--Nature
"If you need a break from the mainstream media message about how
the world is falling apart, I can highly recommend this fact-filled
and super fun book. In fact, I might even suggest that this book
should be the starting place for any kind of discussion about
economics, politics, and the state of the world in general."
--Seeking Alpha
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