It was announced yesterday that Swedish epidemiologist Hans Rosling died (from cancer). To give you a taster of his performance skills – here is a snippet of his work for “The Joy of Stats” broadcast on BBC4.
A full version of this is on Vimeo:
The Joy of Stats from Gapminder on Vimeo.
Kate Allen at the Financial Times did an interesting piece about him in 2014 – where he spoke of being famous but having limited impact; this piece also told of his successful sale of the software underpinning many of his charts to google, creating a funding source for the Gapminder foundation.
To my surprise, the announcement of his death and peoples responses to it was trending worldwide on twitter. Thus, considering my last few posts, I thought that it would be fitting to do a quick analysis of what was being said. Looking at tweets between 2017-02-07 14:35:59 UTC and 2017-02-08 10:20:15 UTC. This required some extra processing as the number of emojis keeps on increasing, and R does not recognise these naturally – thus requiring an external list of how R encodes each emoji. This is still not perfect, thus some manual editing of the wordclouds are still needed to remove emojis that are represented as Japanese characters!
The sentiments expressed in the tweets were largely positive, and, considering the man in question, suitably full of joy and trust/hope rather than sadness.
The first of these represents the number of tweets that expressed each sentiment [note that a single tweet can express multiple sentiments]
While this image represents the strength of the sentiments:
To be decided 