| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : color illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The Art of Insight: How Great Visualization Designers Think is a book about making design decisions in difficult situations. Decision-making is an essential skill for designers because anyone can create a data visualization with just a few clicks. Data is easily available online, and multiple free and easy-to-use software tools have appeared in the past few years. These developments have led to an explosion in the amount and variety of graphs, charts, and maps. We see them everywhere, from news publications to social media. Cairo explains this is a positive phenomenon, but only if the creators of those visualizations are able to think clearly and ethically about what they are doing. As the famous line from the 2002 Spider-Man movie says, with great power comes great responsibility. Visualization books often focus on rules for creating charts and maps, but rarely explain the origin of those rules. Readers are told to start all graphs at a zero baseline, never use pie charts, maximize the data-ink ratio, and so on. Cairo argues that this approach is misguided: it shoehorns designers into a single rigid mode of thinking, based only on the perspective of the book's author or authors"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction: On magic (with Shirley Wu) -- Unruly stripes (with Ed Hawkins) -- A world of conversation -- The eternal wanderer (with Jaime Serra) -- A certain inner light (with Nadieh Bremer) -- A mindful artisan (with Sonja Kuijpers) -- Living visualization (with Pedro Cruz) -- Data and persons (with Federica Fragapane) -- Souls before numbers (with Mohamad Waked) -- Coda -- Building bridges (with Allen Hillery) -- The good fighter (with Amanda Makulec) -- Making data friendly (with Alli Torban) -- A reporter among engineers (with Aaron Williams) -- The therapy of visualization (with Deniz Cem Önduygu) -- The public intellectual (with Attila Bátorfy) -- The discerning outsider (with Harkanwal Singh) -- Second coda -- A journalism of care (with Alyssa Fowers) -- No treasure hunts (with Lena Groeger) -- Smart brevity (with Danielle Alberti, Jacque Schrag, and Will Chase) -- Visceral visualizations (with Gurman Bhatia) -- The determined learner (with Jane Pong) -- The jack-of-all-trades (with Simon Ducroquet) -- A journalist at war (with Anatoliy Bondarenko) -- Epilogue: Teachers, mentors, and meaning. |
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Design -- Methodology.
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Visualization.
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Imagery (Psychology)
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Design -- Méthodologie. |
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Visualisation. |
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Imagerie (Psychologie) |
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imagery. |
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Design -- Methodology |
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Imagery (Psychology) |
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Visualization |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Cairo, Alberto, 1974- Art of insight Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2024] 9781119797395 (DLC) 2023032011 |
| ISBN |
9781119797241 electronic book |
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1119797241 electronic book |
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9781119797234 electronic book |
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1119797233 electronic book |
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paperback |
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(paperback) |
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