2/7/2017

Hans Rosling

Gapminder

Gapminder is an independent Swedish foundation with no political, religious or economic affiliations. Gapminder is a fact tank, not a think tank. Gapminder fights devastating misconceptions about global development. Gapminder produces free teaching resources making the world understandable based on reliable statistics. Gapminder promotes a fact-based worldview everyone can understand.

Who am I?

School

  • NYU Microbiology '12
  • UMD Computer Science '15

Work

  • NYU Genomics 2012
  • UMD UMIACS (Microbiome) 2013 - 2015
  • JHU Biostatistics 2015 -

How did I come to this topic?

Swirl

  • Why does Swirl work?
  • Why isn't there Swirl for Python yet?

Humans Struggle to Understand Systems

Humans Struggle to Understand Systems

Humans Struggle to Understand Systems

We Can't Teach Everyone Statistics

We actually tried teaching everyone statistics and it didn't work.

Nick Strayer

Nicky Case & Vi Hart

Bret Victor

Principles for Data Interaction

Wildly Rough and Unrefined Draft

  • Data interaction is made possible by actions that the user takes, and reactions that the user experiences.
  • There are generally three "modes" of interaction:
    • Individual
    • Group
    • Environment

Example: Basic Interactive Plot

Example: Scrubbing Music

First Foray: Visual Terminal

I'm Teahcing a Class!!

Questions?

Thank You!