The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication, 1st edition

Alberto Cairo

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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.

The practical guide on how to create functional charts, maps, and graphs for designers and journalists

Provides a broad introduction to statistics, written with journalists and designers in mind
Gives specific advice on how to use charts and maps in infographics and visualizations
Looks at how information graphics and visualization teams are organized at publications around the world

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

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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