Factfulness, Hans Rosling

Factfulness

by Hans Rosling
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Unabridged: 8 hr 51 min
Narrator: Richard Harries
Published: 04/03/2018
Category: History
Ola Rosling is a Swedish statistician, educator, and cofounder of the Gapminder Foundation, best known as a coauthor of Factfulness with Hans Rosling and Anna Rosling Rönnlund. His work focuses on helping people understand global development through data, visualization, and methods designed to challenge common misconceptions about health, population, income, education, and living conditions around the world. Rosling led the development of Trendalyzer, the animated data-visualization software later acquired by Google, and continued working on public-data tools before returning to Gapminder. Factfulness translates that experience into a practical framework for recognizing the mental habits that can distort how people interpret global trends. Ola Rosling audiobooks are a strong choice for listeners interested in statistics, global development, data literacy, critical thinking, public policy, economics, and evidence-based decision-making. Rather than asking audiences to memorize numbers, Rosling’s work emphasizes better habits for interpreting information. For listeners who enjoy nonfiction that uses data to test assumptions and make complex world trends easier to understand, his work offers a clear, accessible, and highly discussion-friendly approach.