Read How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information

How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information

Alberto Cairo

4.9/5 (9326 ratings)

Description:A leading data visualization expert explores the negative—and positive—influences that charts have on our perception of truth.We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous—and easier to share than ever. While such visualizations can better inform us, they can also deceive by displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns—or simply misinform us by being poorly designed, such as the confusing “eye of the storm” maps shown on TV every hurricane season.Many of us are ill equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers, and even employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily manipulate visuals to promote their own agendas. Public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers, and to make sense of them we must be able to decode and use visual information. By examining contemporary examples ranging from election-result infographics to global GDP maps and box-office record charts, How Charts Lie teaches us how to do just that.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information. To get started finding How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 1324001569

Description: A leading data visualization expert explores the negative—and positive—influences that charts have on our perception of truth.We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous—and easier to share than ever. While such visualizations can better inform us, they can also deceive by displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns—or simply misinform us by being poorly designed, such as the confusing “eye of the storm” maps shown on TV every hurricane season.Many of us are ill equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers, and even employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily manipulate visuals to promote their own agendas. Public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers, and to make sense of them we must be able to decode and use visual information. By examining contemporary examples ranging from election-result infographics to global GDP maps and box-office record charts, How Charts Lie teaches us how to do just that.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information. To get started finding How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information

How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information

More Books

The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization (Voices That Matter)

The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization (Voices That Matter)

Truthful Art, The: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Voices That Matter)

Truthful Art, The: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Voices That Matter)

Las trincheras de la esperanza: Alberto Cairo: el hombre que reconstruye vidas en Afganistán (ODISEAS) (Spanish Edition)

Las trincheras de la esperanza: Alberto Cairo: el hombre que reconstruye vidas en Afganistán (ODISEAS) (Spanish Edition)

The Art of Insight : How Great Visualization Designers Think

The Art of Insight : How Great Visualization Designers Think

Come i grafici mentono. Capire meglio le informazioni visive

Come i grafici mentono. Capire meglio le informazioni visive

Nerd Journalism: How Data And Digital Technology Transformed News Graphics

Nerd Journalism: How Data And Digital Technology Transformed News Graphics

Infografía 2.0: Visualización interactiva de información en prensa (Spanish Edition)

Infografía 2.0: Visualización interactiva de información en prensa (Spanish Edition)

El arte funcional (Spanish Edition) by Alberto Cairo (2016-05-20)

El arte funcional (Spanish Edition) by Alberto Cairo (2016-05-20)

Storie da Kabul

Storie da Kabul