Tuesday, September 01, 2009

reddit + TED interview Hans Rosling, the stats guru who brought sexy back to stats

Ask Hans anything. Click here.

We had such a great time interviewing Sir Ken Robinson with our partners TED that we thought we ought to keep it going. Take a moment to read Sir Ken's answers if you haven't already.

Hans Rosling is already a bit of a rock star on reddit and we're thrilled to have him as our next interviewee (if you're already jumping out of your seat, click here to submit your questions in the reddit thread). If you haven't seen Hans' TED talks, we'll let it slide, but you owe it to yourself to take the time to watch. He presents data in a way that is as compelling as it is beautiful.

Furthermore, he's made his tools available to the public via Gapminder.org with the hope that we can all live in a slightly more fact based world view. Give it a try, and while you're creating your best Hans Rosling impression, think of a question you'd like to ask him. We'll ask the top 10 questions as of 5pm Pacific on Thursday, September 3rd.

Below is his most recently published TED Talk (and also the 500th TED talk - a tremendous achievement).

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