How Charts Lie : Getting Smarter about Visual Information

Cairo, Alberto

ISBN 10: 1324001569 / ISBN 13: 9781324001560

Verlag: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 2019

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Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 19226847-6

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: How Charts Lie : Getting Smarter about Visual Information
• Verlag: Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1324001569
• ISBN-13: 9781324001560
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Social media has made charts, infographics and diagrams ubiquitous―and easier to share than ever. While such visualisations can better inform us, they can also deceive by displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns―or misinform by being poorly designed.

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Infographics and Data Visualization at the School of Communication of the University of Miami. He has consulted with companies and institutions such as Google and the Congressional Budget Office on visualizations. He lives in Miami, Florida.