In the past two decades, data visualization has been widely adopted in many disciplines, from statistics to journalism.
Charts, maps, graphs, and diagrams are being read and shared by readers all over the world. But do we understand them well? Do we read them correctly? Do we make the right inferences when we see them? This lecture will show that we often misinterpret charts, and will explain how to become better readers.
* Picture: Minard, Charles Joseph. Carte figurative et approximative des quantités de coton brut importées en Europe en, en 1864 et en 1865. [Paris: S.N, 1858] Map.
Alberto Cairo
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.
