Jostein Ryssevik is the CEO and founder of ideas2evidence. Jostein has more than 25 years of experience from social science data production, management, analysis and dissemination, including the Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). He is an expert in research methods and statistics and has written textbooks and developed software in these areas. Jostein has over the last few years managed a series of major research projects, several of these focusing on the cultural industries, economic development and the relationship between the business sector, education and research. Jostein has a strong interest in technologies for the analisys, visualization and dissemination of statistical data and he has managed several major development projects in this area, including the early development of NESSTAR, a software system for web-based data dissemination. His biggest devotion is data visualization -to find the the best possible ways to let complex data "tell their story".
