How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter About Visual Information - Rilegato

Cairo, Alberto

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ISBN 10: 1324001569 ISBN 13: 9781324001560

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2019

Riassunto

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. We associate charts with science and reason; the flashy visuals are both appealing and persuasive. Pie charts, maps, bar and line graphs, and scatter plots (to name a few) can better inform us, revealing patterns and trends hidden behind the numbers we encounter in our lives. In short, good charts make us smarter if we know how to read them.However, they can also lead us astray. Charts lie in a variety of ways displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns, and concealing uncertainty or are frequently misunderstood, such as the confusing cone of uncertainty maps shown on TV every hurricane season. To make matters worse, many of us are ill-equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers, and even our employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily manipulate them to promote their own agendas.How Charts LieHow Charts Lie

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Informazioni sull?autore

Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami. The author of several textbooks, he consults with companies and institutions like Google and the Congressional Budget Office on visualizations. He lives in Miami, Florida.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1324001569
• ISBN 13: 9781324001560
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 226
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile