HOW CHARTS LIE — and how they make us smarter

Date

22.11.2018,14.30

Venue

Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Raciborska 50, Cinema Hall

Submission

Free of charge

Co-organiser

Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice

Guest

Alberto Cairo

Knight Chair at the School of Communication of the University of Miami

Alberto Cairo is the Knight Chair at the School of Communication of the University of Miami, where he teaches visualization and infographics. He is also director of the visualization program of UM’s Center for Computational Science. He is the author of ‘The Functional Art: An Introduction to Information Graphics and Visualization’ (2012) and ‘The Truthful Art: Data, Charts and Maps for Communication’ (2016). He has been director of visualization and infographics in news publications like El Mundo (Spain) and Época (Brazil), besides training visualization professionals in more than twenty countries in the past decade.

albertocairo.com