Professor Hans Rosling talks with Talis about Gapminder, data and more
In our latest podcast I talk with Hans Rosling, Professor of International Health at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institutet and Director of the Gapminder Foundation. We discuss Hans’ background in medicine, his ongoing and compelling crusade to let data speak, and touch upon the work of the Foundation in this area.
During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;
- ALT-C 2008, Leeds (watch Hans Rosling’s keynote, listen to the audio, or read my live coverage)
- Paul Cheung, UN Statistics Division
- Flash
- Gapminder Foundation
- Gapminder World
- Google Motion chart (and the tool embedded in a live Google Docs spreadsheet)
- Karolinska Institutet
- Many Eyes
- Millennium Development Goals
- John Snow, and his work on cholera
- Macromedia Director
- Christopher Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- Swivel
- TED, and Hans Rosling’s presentations in 2006 and 2007
- UNICEF
- WHO
- World Health Chart (2001) from the Gapminder Foundation
This conversation was conducted using Skype on Wednesday 22 October, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.For other Talis podcasts in this Xiphos series, see here. To subscribe to updates from all of Talis’ podcast series, see here.
October 23rd, 2008 at 2:24 pm
[...] Data It’s not strictly ‘about’ the Semantic Web, which isn’t even mentioned in this 45 minute podcast. Nevertheless, Prof. Hans Rosling’s point of view chimed so strongly with almost everything that [...]
October 23rd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
[...] Have a listen for yourselves, but I reckon there are a striking number of synergies between Hans’ ‘Semantic Web’-free discussion with me, and the issues alluded to in Zach’s post; issues that lie at the heart of the Semantic Web’s future. Share This Tags: hans rosling, Talis, talking with talis, Web of Data Comment (RSS) | Trackback [...]