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Learn how expert data visualization designers reason about their
craft In The Art of Insight: How Great Visualization Designers
Think, renowned visualization designer and educator Alberto Cairo,
in conversation with several leaders in the field, delivers an
inspiring exploration of how they make design choices. The book is
a celebration of visualization, and a personal journey that dives
into subjects like: How the professional background and life
experiences of every designer shape their choices of what to
visualize and how to visualize it. What designers from
different countries and cultures, and working in different fileds,
such as data art, data analytics, or data journalism, have in
common, or how they differ from each other. How designers
reflect on research, ethical reasoning, and also aesthetic
judgments, to make decisions such as selecting the most appropriate
ways to encode data, or the most appealing visual
style.  Perfect for data scientists and data
journalists, The Art of Insight will also inspire artists,
analysts, statisticians, and any other professional who uses data
visualizations. How the professional background and life
experiences of every designer shape their choices of what to
visualize and how to visualize it
Social media has made charts, infographics and diagrams
ubiquitous-and easier to share than ever. While such visualisations
can better inform us, they can also deceive by displaying
incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns-or
misinform by being poorly designed. Many of us are ill equipped to
interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers
and even employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily
manipulate visuals to promote their own agendas. Public
conversations are increasingly driven by numbers and to make sense
of them, we must be able to decode and use visual information. By
examining contemporary examples ranging from election-result
infographics to global GDP maps and box-office record charts, How
Charts Lie teaches us how to do just that.
Today, public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers.
Although charts, infographics, and diagrams can make us wiser, they
can also deceive-intentionally or unintentionally. To be informed
citizens, we must all be able to decode and use the visual
information that politicians, journalists and even our employers
present to us each day. How Charts Lie examines contemporary
examples ranging from election result infographics to global GDP
maps and box office record charts, demystifying an essential new
literacy for our data-driven world. * With a new afterword on the
reporting of the Covid-19 statistics.
Unlike any time before in our lives, we have access to vast amounts
of free information. With the right tools, we can start to make
sense of all this data to see patterns and trends that would
otherwise be invisible to us. By transforming numbers into
graphical shapes, we allow readers to understand the stories those
numbers hide. In this practical introduction to understanding and
using information graphics, you'll learn how to use data
visualizations as tools to see beyond lists of numbers and
variables and achieve new insights into the complex world around
us. Regardless of the kind of data you're working with-business,
science, politics, sports, or even your own personal finances-this
book will show you how to use statistical charts, maps, and
explanation diagrams to spot the stories in the data and learn new
things from it. You'll also get to peek into the creative process
of some of the world's most talented designers and visual
journalists, including Conde Nast Traveler's John Grimwade ,
National Geographic Magazine's Fernando Baptista, The New York
Times' Steve Duenes, The Washington Post's Hannah Fairfield, Hans
Rosling of the Gapminder Foundation, Stanford's Geoff McGhee, and
European superstars Moritz Stefaner, Jan Willem Tulp, Stefanie
Posavec, and Gregor Aisch. The book also includes a DVD-ROM
containing over 90 minutes of video lessons that expand on core
concepts explained within the book and includes even more
inspirational information graphics from the world's leading
designers. The first book to offer a broad, hands-on introduction
to information graphics and visualization, The Functional Art
reveals: * Why data visualization should be thought of as
"functional art" rather than fine art * How to use color, type, and
other graphic tools to make your information graphics more
effective, not just better looking * The science of how our brains
perceive and remember information * Best practices for creating
interactive information graphics * A comprehensive look at the
creative process behind successful information graphics * An
extensive gallery of inspirational work from the world's top
designers and visual artists On the DVD-ROM: In this introductory
video course on information graphics, Alberto Cairo goes into
greater detail with even more visual examples of how to create
effective information graphics that function as practical tools for
aiding perception. You'll learn how to: incorporate basic design
principles in your visualizations, create simple interfaces for
interactive graphics, and choose the appropriate type of graphic
forms for your data. Cairo also deconstructs successful information
graphics from The New York Times and National Geographic magazine
with sketches and images not shown in the book.
No matter what your actual job title, you are-or soon will be-a
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 Art-Alberto Cairo's
foundational guide to understanding information graphics and
visualization-the 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 Sao Paulo (Brazil),
Berliner Morgenpost (Germany), and many more.
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