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100 1 $aCairo, Alberto,$d1974-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe truthful art :$bdata, charts, and maps for communication /$cAlberto Cairo.
264 1 $a[San Francisco, California?] :$bNew Riders,$c[2016]
264 4 $c©2016
300 $axvii, 382 pages :$billustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $a"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.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPart I. Foundations : What we talk about when we talk about visualization -- The five qualities of great visualizations : The hockey stick chart : Truthful; Functional; Beautiful; Insightful; Enlightening -- Part II. Truthful : The truth continuum : Dubious models ; The mind, that clumsy modeler : Why are we so often mistaken?; Mind bug 1. Patternicity; Mind bug 2. Storytelling; Mind bug 3. Confirmation ; Truth is neither absolute, nor relative : The skills of an educated person -- Of conjectures and uncertainty : The scientific stance ; From curiosity to conjectures : Hypothesizing; An aside on variables; On studies; Doing experiments; About uncertainty -- Part III. Functional : Basic principles of visualization : Visually encoding data ; Choosing graphic forms : A grain of salt; Practical tips about those tricky scales ; Organizing the display : Put your work to the test -- Exploring data with simple charts : The norm and the exceptions : The mode, the median, and the mean; Weighing means; Range; Some fun with ranges -- Visualizing distributions : The variance and the standard deviation : Standard deviation and standard scores; Presenting stories with frequency charts; How standardized scores mislead us; Peculiarities of the normal distribution ; Percentiles, quartiles, and the box plot : Manipulating data; Frequency over time -- Revealing change : Trend, seasonality, and noise : Decomposing a time series; Visualizing indexes ; From ratios to logs ; How time series charts mislead : Communicating change -- Seeing relationships : From association to correlation : Smoothers; Matrices and parallel coordinate plots ; Correlation for communication regression ; From correlation to causation : Data transformation -- Mapping data : Projection ; Data on maps : Point data maps; Line maps ; The basics of choropleth maps : Classifying data; Using choropleth maps; Other kinds of data maps -- Uncertainty and significance : Back to distributions : The standard error; Building confidence intervals; Disclosing uncertainty ; The best advice you'll ever get: ask ; How has stuff been measured?; Dispatches from the data jungle; Significance, size and power -- Part IV. Practice : On creativity and innovation : The popularizers ; News applications ; Those enchanting Europeans ; Making science visual ; Culture data ; The artistic fringes -- Epilogue : What lies ahead.
650 0 $aVisual communication.
650 0 $aCharts, diagrams, etc.$xDesign.
650 0 $aConcept mapping.
650 0 $aInformation visualization.
650 0 $aComputer graphics.
650 0 $aOptical images.
650 7 $aDonnées statistiques.$2eclas
650 7 $aGraphiques.$2eclas
650 7 $aComputergrafik$2gnd$0(DE-588)4010450-3
650 7 $aDatenverarbeitung$2gnd$0(DE-588)4011152-0
650 7 $aVisualisierung$2gnd$0(DE-588)4188417-6
650 4 $aDonnées statistiques.
650 4 $aGraphiques.
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