The man who 'turned stats into a performing art'
Hans Rosling, a Swedish professor of global health and well-known public educator, has died aged 68, his Gapminder foundation has announced. Mr Rosling was known for lively presentations that used data and animation to explain global development in a compelling way. BBC Newsnight presenter Evan Davis and president of the Royal Statistical Society David Spiegelhalter discuss the "storyteller". (Photo: Hans Rosling. Credit: Getty Images for ReSource 2012)