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Alberto Cairo
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Nightingale

·Feb 10, 2021

Orthodoxy and Eccentricity

Preface to ‘Data Sketches: A journey of imagination, exploration, and beautiful data visualizations’, a book by Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu By Alberto Cairo, Knight Chair at the University of Miami and author of ‘How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter About Visual Information’ Orthodoxy and eccentricity are opposing but complementary forces…

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Orthodoxy and Eccentricity
Orthodoxy and Eccentricity
Dataviz

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Nightingale

·May 4, 2020

The Dawn of a Philosophy of Visualization

Note: this is the foreword of the book Data Visualization in Society (Amsterdam University Press, 2020) Geographer John Pickles once wrote that “GIS is a set of tools, technologies, approaches and ideas that are vitally embedded in broader transformations of science, society, and culture.” …

Data

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The Dawn of a Philosophy of Visualization
The Dawn of a Philosophy of Visualization
Data

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Nightingale

·Sep 19, 2019

The Day I Thought I Misled the President of the United States: A Visualization Tragicomedy

On August 27, 2019, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) predicted that tropical storm Dorian would become a hurricane and that Florida was in its probable path: A few months before, I had finished writing a new book about how visualizations can mislead and deceive. One of its chapters explains how…

Data Visualization

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The Day I Thought I Misled the President of the United States: A Comedic Visualization Tale
The Day I Thought I Misled the President of the United States: A Comedic Visualization Tale
Data Visualization

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Data Journalism Awards

·Mar 4, 2017

You aren’t qualified to be a professional journalist

(This article was originally published in www.thefunctionalart.com) Just a quick thought: I’m at the 2017 CAR conference these days. I’ll be talking about communicating uncertainty with Mark Hansen and Jen Christiansen. I’ve put together this folder with readings and our slides, in case you’re curious. Anyway, I’ve just attended a…

Data Journalism

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You aren’t qualified to be a professional journalist
You aren’t qualified to be a professional journalist
Data Journalism

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Alberto Cairo

Alberto Cairo

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I teach visualization at the U. of Miami. Author of “The Truthful Art” and “The Functional Art” http://www.thefunctionalart.com

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