{"id":389,"date":"2011-04-29T12:48:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T17:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/?p=389"},"modified":"2011-04-29T12:48:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-29T17:48:41","slug":"hans-rosling-on-the-beauty-of-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2011\/04\/29\/hans-rosling-on-the-beauty-of-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Rosling on the Beauty of Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We sit down with Hans Rosling for a discussion about how visual graphics can unveil the underlying beauty of data. Highlights include a discussion of the history behind Rosling&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/gapminder.org\">gapminder<\/a>, who is leading the pack on adopting a &ldquo;fact-based worldview,&rdquo; the work that goes into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/hans_rosling.html\">Rosling&rsquo;s famous TED Talks<\/a>, and the historical relationship between Sweden and the US (and Minnesota, in particular).<\/p>\n<p>A special thanks goes to the University of Minnesota&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.umn.edu\/\">Institute on the Environment<\/a>. Rosling spoke at Minnesota as part of their <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.umn.edu\/momentum\/eventseries\/speakers\/hans_rosling.html\">Momentum 2011<\/a> series and they were kind enough to allow us to interview him as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/OH24_Rosling.mp3\">Download Office Hours #24<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sit down with Hans Rosling for a discussion about how visual graphics can unveil the underlying beauty of data. Highlights include a discussion of the history behind Rosling&rsquo;s gapminder, who is leading the pack on adopting a &ldquo;fact-based worldview,&rdquo; the work that goes into Rosling&rsquo;s famous TED Talks, and the historical relationship between Sweden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[716],"tags":[64,129,38],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-globalization","tag-media","tag-methods"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}