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Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Max Roser is a German economist known for his research on global trends of living conditions and his visualisations of these trends. He is currently a research fellow in economics at the University of Oxford.Roser is the author of Our World In Data, a web publication about how living conditions around the world are changing. The publication covers a wide range of aspects of development: global health, food provision, the growth and distribution of incomes, violence, rights, wars, education, environmental changes, among others. The publication makes use of data visualisations which are licensed under Creative Commons and are widely used in media publications and teaching material. An important aspect of this publication is that Roser points out the limits of quantitative information. The publication has had more than 1 million readers per year (September 2015).While his research is concerned with rising income inequality he maintains that in many important aspects the world has made important progress in improving living conditions and aims to show this change by visualising the empirical evidence for these long-term trends. Roser has said that his work is not about saying that we live in a perfect world, but that his aim is to point out out the direction of change around the world. Roser has said that the world's most severe problem is global poverty.He has been called “The Data-Driven Optimist” and Tina Rosenberg emphasised in The New York Times that Roser’s work presents a “big picture that’s an important counterpoint to the constant barrage of negative world news”. Steven Pinker placed Roser’s Our World In Data on his list of his personal “cultural highlights”."@en }

• Max_Roser abstract "Max Roser is a German economist known for his research on global trends of living conditions and his visualisations of these trends. He is currently a research fellow in economics at the University of Oxford.Roser is the author of Our World In Data, a web publication about how living conditions around the world are changing. The publication covers a wide range of aspects of development: global health, food provision, the growth and distribution of incomes, violence, rights, wars, education, environmental changes, among others. The publication makes use of data visualisations which are licensed under Creative Commons and are widely used in media publications and teaching material. An important aspect of this publication is that Roser points out the limits of quantitative information. The publication has had more than 1 million readers per year (September 2015).While his research is concerned with rising income inequality he maintains that in many important aspects the world has made important progress in improving living conditions and aims to show this change by visualising the empirical evidence for these long-term trends. Roser has said that his work is not about saying that we live in a perfect world, but that his aim is to point out out the direction of change around the world. Roser has said that the world's most severe problem is global poverty.He has been called “The Data-Driven Optimist” and Tina Rosenberg emphasised in The New York Times that Roser’s work presents a “big picture that’s an important counterpoint to the constant barrage of negative world news”. Steven Pinker placed Roser’s Our World In Data on his list of his personal “cultural highlights”.".