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Ola Rosling

b. 1975

Swedish statistician; director and co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation

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About Ola Rosling

Born 1975. Ola Rosling is a Swedish software developer, statistician, businessperson and writer.

Ola Rosling (born 1 November 1975) is a Swedish statistician known for his work for the Gapminder Foundation on changing the global quality of life. He is the chairman, director and co-founder of the foundation.

Career Rosling co-founded the Gapminder Foundation together with his wife Anna Rosling Rönnlund and his father Hans Rosling. Ola led the development of the Trendalyzer software that creates interactive graphics from statistical datasets. The software was bought by Google in 2007 and Rosling and his team worked for Google from then on. He became Google's Public Data product manager.

Left to right: Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling discuss their book "Factfulness" in 2016. Ola and Anna Rosling collaborated with Hans Rosling and co-authored the book called Factfulness.

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Important facts

Born
1 November 1975, Uppsala
Birth century
20th century
Occupation
Software developer, statistician, businessperson, writer
Nationality
Sweden
Employers
Google
Awards
Leonardo Award; Honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel

People in Ola Rosling's life

Named in this biography and alive at the same time

Portrait of Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling
1948 – 2017
Physician
 Portrait of Anna Rosling Rönnlund
Anna Rosling Rönnlund
b. 1975
Software developer

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Ola Rosling's

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Gene E. Likens
b. 1935
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Nathaniel David Mermin
b. 1935
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Petr Vaníček
b. 1935
Geophysicist
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Satoshi Ōmura
b. 1935
Biochemist
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Albert Bregman
1936 – 2023
Psychologist
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Andrew Grove
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Engineer

Frequently asked questions

Who is Ola Rosling?

Swedish statistician; director and co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation

When was Ola Rosling born?

Ola Rosling was born on 1 November 1975 in Uppsala.

What is Ola Rosling's occupation?

Ola Rosling is a software developer, statistician, businessperson and writer.

What nationality is Ola Rosling?

Ola Rosling is Swedish.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ola Rosling

· Wikidata: Q22280133

· DBpedia: Ola Rosling

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