The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication, 1st edition
Title overview
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
Table of contents
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
Author bios
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.