From the viewpoint of BBC announcers (_even_ BBC announcers :),
anyone who can analyze arcane (and potentially mind-numbing) data to
find & present interesting linkages in graphical form , deserves the
title, 'statistician.'
I've seen the effect in my neighborhood of Wisconsin, USA, among
those far less aware than BBC announcers. If you have topically
interesting analytical results, you're a 'statistician.' Doesn't
matter what academic education or title you do or don't have.
Rosling lays down multiple dimensions - two axes, bubble diameter,
bubble color, position change over time, and maybe more - all onto a
flat video screen. What other topic areas could benefit from this
kind of treatment, and who would be able to validate the conclusions?
Cheers
Jay
On Jun 1, 2009, at 11:03:24 AM, Allan Reese (Cefas) wrote:
> I mangled the link to the BBC website
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8070000/8070108.stm
>
> but Tobias Ryden has kindly provided some background information on
> Professor Rosling
>
> According to the Swedish Wikipedia page
> http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling
> he is a physician, with a PhD in internal medicine, and professor
> of international health. In fact I now see that the English
> Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling
> says that he studied statistics in the 60's, but still I think it
> is not correct to call him a statistician. A physician with
> unusually good knowledge of statistics is probably a fair description.
>
> Best wishes,
> Tobias Rydén
>
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