About Ola
Ola Rosling is co-founder of Gapminder, an independent educational non-profit organisation promoting fact-based worldview. He is co-author of the 2018 bestselling book Factfulness, created with his wife Anna Rosling Rönnlund and father Hans Rosling. Rosling developed innovative educational approaches using data visualisation and engaging storytelling to address public misconceptions about global trends. In 1998, he and Anna invented Trendalyzer bubble-chart software, which Google acquired in 2007.
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AuthorExpert / AcademicEntrepreneurSpeakerData VisualisationGlobal HealthPoverty And DevelopmentPublic MisconceptionsWorldview And Statistics
Known for
- Co-founding Gapminder educational non-profit
- Co-authoring Factfulness book
- Data-driven storytelling
- Inventing Trendalyzer bubble-chart software
- Public misconception research through Ignorance Project
- Educational presentations on global facts and statistics
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