2023-06-20 06:21:00
When Olof Gränström took the stage of the Romanian Athenaeum in May 2023 and presented a graph with the spectacular evolution of the standard of living in Romania, a murmur spread in the hall. “Here you are now. You are one of the richest countries in the world,” the Swede drawled as the animation reached the present day. The hall laughed—not uproariously, but politely, as you laugh at a guest’s unfunny joke.
Calea Victoriei, BucharestPhoto: Inquam Photos / Alberto Groşescu
During his lecture, Gränström, an analyst specialized in data interpretation, kept showing statistics about Romania’s evolution on various indicators. Overall, very good developments. She tried several times to convince her audience that she was rich. Did not make it.
It happens to him often. Olof Gränström has been working with statistics, graphs and tables all his life. They collect them, process them and then create stories to tell people, to explain to them how things are in their countries and in the world. It also does this to show why, very often, we do not read the reality around us correctly.
It’s an increasingly necessary mission in a world faced with information and data inflation, which makes information, once highly valuable, an increasingly weak currency. The problem becomes how to manage this surplus so that we can still understand how things are in the world.
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