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Ola Rosling

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Global Educational Change-maker, Co-Creator of Gapminder, Factfulness & Google Public Data

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Gender: Male

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Languages: English, Swedish

Travels from: Sweden

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Author of “Factfulness”, a New York Times Best Selling Book President and Co-founder, Gapminder Foundation Former Product Manager of Google Public Data

Biography

Meet Ola Rosling

Ola Rosling is President & Co-Founder of Gapminder Foundation which he founded together with his wife and his father.

In 1999, Ola led the development of the Trendalyzer software, which was acquired by Google in 2007. At Google, Ola and his team delivered the Motion Chart as part of Google Spreadsheets. As Product Manager for Google Public Data Ola then helped democratize access to Public Statistics by developing the infrastructure needed to make official statistics part of Google Search results. Ola and Anna went back to Gapminder in 2011 to develop free teaching materials for a fact-based worldview.

In 2014 Ola coined the term Factfulness, which Gapminder promoted in order to make the education about Sustainable Development less ideological and more fact-based.

Together with Anna and Hans, Ola wrote the Factfulness book, launched in April 2018.

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Mega misconceptions that skew our worldview

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

FACTFULNESS: the stress-reducing habit of only having opinions for which there are strong supporting facts. Things aren’t as bad as we think. Fact. When asked simple questions about global trends – why the world’s population is increasing; how many young women go to school; how many of us live in poverty – we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers. In Factfulness, legendary statisticians Hans, Anna and Ola Rosling offer a radical new explanation of why this happens, and reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective. It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. But when we let the bad news take on outsize proportions instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world.

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