From the Beeb:
Hans Rosling: Data visionary and educator dies aged 68
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 diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year ago and died in Uppsala, Sweden.
He was known for lively presentations that used data and animation to explain global development in a compelling way.
His Gapminder co-founders said that they would continue to fight for "his dream of a fact-based worldview".
Here he is talking about world poverty, immigration and gumballs:
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