Well written! Except that the article is wrong in calling him statistician, even if he used statistics for public education on important issues. He was a physician by profession, ie a medical doctor, for example having done years of field work in Africa fighting Ebola successfully.
He will be greatly missed in this post-fact world of alternative truths. Thank you Lex, Olav Vahtras > 8 feb. 2017 kl. 16:59 skrev Lex Nederbragt <[email protected]>: > > Dear all, > > Yesterday the sad news broke that Hans Rosling, the Swedish statistician, has > died from cancer: > http://www.thelocal.se/20170207/swedish-statistician-hans-rosling-dies-from-pancreatic-cancer. > > Not only was he “a world famous public educator, or Edutainer as he liked to > call it”, a number of the Software Carpentry teaching materials use a dataset > derived from his Gapminder World, "a web-service displaying time series of > development statistics for all countries and many sub-national regions” > (Wikipedia). > > Let’s continue to honour Hans Rosling’s legacy by reusing his material while > improving the life of researchers. > > Regards, > > Lex Nederbragt > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
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