Alberto Cairo: 2 books
The Truthful Art
Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
No matter what your actual job title, you are—or soon will be—a data worker.
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...
The Functional Art
An introduction to information graphics and visualization
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Unlike any time before in our lives, we have access to vast amounts of free information. With the right tools, we can start to make sense of all this data to see patterns and trends that would otherwise be invisible to us. By transforming numbers into graphical shapes, we allow readers to understand...