Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Gapminder Co-Founder | Debunking Misconceptions About Global Development
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Anna Rosling Rönnlund is the co-founder of Gapminder, a non-profit organization that fights global misconceptions by unveiling data-driven insights about human development. As the driving force behind Gapminder's iconic bubble charts and online tools, she has dedicated her career to making statistics engaging and accessible to all.
Rönnlund's TED talks have been viewed millions of times, challenging audiences to rethink preconceptions about poverty, health, and social progress worldwide. Her keynotes provide a fact-based, optimistic perspective on how the world is actually changing for the better.
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See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income
What does it look like when someone in Sweden brushes their teeth or when someone in Rwanda makes their bed? Anna Rosling Rönnlund wants all of us to find out, so she sent photographers to 264 homes in 50 countries (and counting!) to document the stoves, bed, toilets, toys and more in households from every income bracket around the world. See how families live in Latvia or Burkina Faso or Peru as Rosling Rönnlund explains the power of data visualization to help us better understand the world.
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