Swedish physician and statistician Hans Rosling insisted that facts must be used to guide debates over public policy. This stance is surprisingly rare since most "serious" politicians and pundits make ...

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News is coming out today that Hans Rosling (pictured above with his special extra-long pointer), global health expert, physician, statistician, development champion, TED lecturer, myth-buster, ...

Three TED talks are now online, and these are probably the cream of the crop: Pranav Mistry, Hans Rosling, and Devdutt Patnaik were the rock stars at TED India, held in the Infosys campus at Mysore.

Hans Rosling is the proprietor of the invaluable Gapminder project that collects and displays vast amounts of environmental, economic, health, and population information in easily understood ways.

Hans Rosling, who will be in town Thursday to speak at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute’s annual Passport to Global Health event, is a physician from Sweden who has created a unique way of ...

Hans Rosling, co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation, visualizes global health trends and population numbers — transforming dry poverty and development statistics into Internet sensations. In addition ...

Hans Rosling, the beloved Swedish statistician and self-described “edutainer” who taught the world how to use numbers and data in thrilling ways, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was 68. Rosling’s ...