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 São Paulo (Brazil), Berliner Morgenpost (Germany), and
many more.
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