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Truthful Art, The: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Voices That Matter) - Softcover

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Cairo, Alberto

 
9780321934079: Truthful Art, The: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Voices That Matter)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0321934075 ISBN 13: 9780321934079
Verlag: New Riders, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

No matter what your actual job title, you areor soon will bea data worker.

Every day, at work, home, and school, we are bombarded with vast amounts of free data collected and shared by everyone and everything from our co-workers to our calorie counters. In this highly anticipated follow-up to The Functional ArtAlberto Cairo's foundational guide to understanding information graphics and visualizationthe respected data visualization professor explains in clear terms how to work with data, discover the stories hidden within, and share those stories with the world in the form of charts, maps, and infographics. In The Truthful Art, Cairo transforms elementary principles of data and scientific reasoning into tools that you can use in daily life to interpret data sets and extract stories from them.

The Truthful Art explains:

The role infographics and data visualization play in our world

Basic principles of data and scientific reasoning that anyone can master

How to become a better critical thinker

Step-by-step processes that will help you evaluate any data visualization (including your own)

How to create and use effective charts, graphs, and data maps to explain data to any audience

The Truthful Art is also packed with inspirational and educational real-world examples of data visualizations from such leading publications as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Estado de São Paulo (Brazil), Berliner Morgenpost (Germany), and many more.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami (UM), where he heads specializations in infographics and data visualization. He’s also director of the visualization program of UM’s Center for Computational Science, and Visualization Innovator-in-Residence at Univisión. Cairo is the author of the books Infografía 2.0: Visualización interactiva de información en prensa, published exclusively in Spain in 2008, and The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization (New Riders, 2012.) Over the past two decades, Cairo has been director of infographics and visualization at news organizations in Spain and Brazil, in addition to consulting with companies and educational institutions in more than 20 countries. You can find Cairo at www.thefunctionalart.com or on Twitter, where he is @albertocairo. 

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The Truthful Art is an introduction to quantitative thinking and statistical and cartographical representation written specifically for journalists and designers. A follow-up to The Functional Art, it goes into the specifics of how to create functional charts, maps, and graphs.

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Verlag
New Riders
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0321934075
ISBN 13 
9780321934079
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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