Data Visualization Lessons From Hans Rosling's Legacy

Data Visualization Lessons From Hans Rosling's Legacy

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Peter Walker

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1 minute

Published date: 

April 5, 2026

A tribute to Hans Rosling's animated Gapminder charts from 2005-2006, which changed how the author thinks about data visualization and compelling storytelling.

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A few ways in which things are getting better.

Shouts to Todd Jones of Mississippi State for the visual, but also for reminding me of the first data viz love we all had (Hans Rosling going through these animated scatter plots from Gapminder in 2005-2006).

That TED Talk changed the way I thought about charts. If you haven't looked it up, it's worth your time 🙏

Peter Walker
Author: Peter Walker
Peter Walker runs the Insights team at Carta, focused on discovering key data and narratives across the private capital ecosystem. In a former life, he was a marketing executive for a media analytics startup and led the data visualization team at the Covid Tracking Project.

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