Ola Rosling Explained

Ola Rosling (born 1 November 1975 in Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish statistician known for his work for the Gapminder Foundation on changing global quality of life. He is the chairman, director and co-founder of the foundation.[1]

Career

Rosling co-founded the Gapminder Foundation together with his wife Anna Rosling Rönnlund and his father Hans Rosling. Ola led the development of the Trendalyzer software that creates interactive graphics from statistical datasets.[2] The software was bought by Google in 2007[3] and Rosling and his team worked for Google from then on. He became Google's Public Data product manager.[4]

Ola and Anna Rosling collaborated with Hans Rosling and co-authored the book called Factfulness.[5] [6]

Publication

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Staff. Gapminder Foundation. 27 September 2015.
  2. News: At home: statistician Hans Rosling. Financial Times. 26 April 2013. 27 September 2015. 0307-1766. Annie Maccoby. Berglof.
  3. Web site: A world in motion. 27 September 2015. Google Blog.
  4. Web site: Ola Rosling. TED. 27 September 2015.
  5. Web site: Factfulness av Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Ronnlund (Bok). Bokus.com. sv. 10 January 2019.
  6. Book: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. Rosling. Hans. Rönnlund. Anna Rosling. Rosling. Ola. 3 April 2018. Flatiron Books. 9781250123817. en.

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