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

Published by Pearson (February 8, 2016) © 2016

  • Alberto Cairo
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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 visualisation - the respected data visualisation 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. 

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

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