Ola Rosling
Director at Gapminder Foundation
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolOla Rosling is a mission-driven director with 11 years of leadership experience dedicated to turning complex global data into accessible, fact-based insights as co-founder and long-time leader of Gapminder. He blends product instincts honed at Google—where he led launches like Motion Chart and Public Data Explorer—with a communicator’s flair for public education, fighting ignorance through clear, engaging visualizations. Based in Stockholm, he guides strategy and product at Gapminder while maintaining a pragmatic, results-focused approach to social impact work. Notably, his career pairs hands-on product development with nonprofit founding experience, revealing an uncommon mix of technical product delivery and public-facing advocacy.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
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Swedish, rövarspråket, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
fact10
statistics9
visualization6
ppp6
python6
data-visualization5
transformation4
data-exploration3
excel3
validation3
data-transformation2
trend1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
srasel/m-scripts
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:36 commits in 1 month
querytransformationpower-queryvalidationpower
open-numbers/ddf--gadm--geo_boundaries
Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 9 months
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