num_pages: 400
description: No matter what your actual job title you areor soon will bea data worker. 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 Cairos foundational guide to understanding information graphics and visualizationthe respected data visualization 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. The Truthful Art  The role infographics and data visualization play in our world  Basic principles of data and scientific reasoning that anyone can master  How to become a better critical thinker  Step-by-step processes that will help you evaluate any data visualization (including your own)  How to create and use effective charts graphs and data maps to explain data to any audience The Truthful Art is also packed with inspirational and educational real-world examples of data visualizations from such leading publications as The New York Times  The Wall Street Journal  Estado de So Paulo (Brazil) Berliner Morgenpost (Germany) and many more.
language: English
title: Truthful Art, The: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
publisher: New Riders