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 February 11, 2017

Hans Rosling, who turned statistics into performance art, dies at 68

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The Swedish scientist Hans Rosling has been called everything from "data guru" to "Jedi master" of statistics. He died on Tuesday at age 68 from pancreatic cancer. Produced by: Sarah Birnbaum. Image credit: Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via Reuters.

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    Mike D
    Recently I've seen his TED talk about 200 countries in 200 years it was really interesting and enjoyable way of presenting some human history facts in numbers
    appreciate appreciated
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    Joe M
    Thank you for adding the date reference here. :)
    appreciate appreciated
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