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Truthful Art, The

Autor Alberto Cairo
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 mar 2016
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780321934079
ISBN-10: 0321934075
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 176 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Pearson Education (US)

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

Preface: It All Begins With a Spark
Introduction: The Island of Knowledge and the Shoreline of Wonder
PART I: FOUNDATIONS
Chapter 1: What We Talk About When We Talk About Visualization
Chapter 2: The Five Qualities of Great Visualizations
PART II: TRUTHFUL
Chapter 3: The Truth Continuum
Chapter 4: Of Conjectures and Uncertainty
PART III: FUNCTIONAL
Chapter 5: Basic Principles of Visualization
Chapter 6: Exploring Data With Simple Charts
Chapter 7: Visualizing Distributions
Chapter 8: Revealing change
Chapter 9: Seeing Relationships
Chapter 10: Mapping Data
Chapter 11: Confidence and Significance
PART IV: PRACTICE
Chapter 12: On Creativity and Innovation
An Epilogue on What Lies Ahead