February 8, 2017

Hans Rosling, 1948-2017

Hans Rosling, the public health physician and inspiring statistics communicator, has died.

Coverage:

His TED talk.

Gapminder, the foundation he co-founded, with the aim of giving people accurate information about health and development around the world.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »