The truthful art : data, charts, and maps for communication
(Book)

"The truthful art explains: the role of infographics and data visualizations play in our daily lives; 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; how to create and use effective charts, graphs, and data maps"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 visualization, the 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.