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  title info:
    title: How charts lie
    sub title: getting smarter about visual information
  name:
    name part: Cairo, Alberto
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 226 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
  abstract: "A leading data visualization expert explores the negative--and positive--influences that charts have on our perception of truth. We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don't understand what we're looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous--and easier to share than ever. While such visualizations can better inform us, they can also deceive by displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns-- or simply misinform us by being poorly designed, such as the confusing "eye of the storm" maps shown on TV every hurricane season. Many of us are ill equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers, and even employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily manipulate visuals to promote their own agendas. Public conversations are increasingly driven by numbers, and to make sense of them we must be able to decode and use visual information. By examining contemporary examples ranging from election-result infographics to global GDP maps and box-office record charts, How Charts Lie teaches us how to do just that"--
  table of contents: Prologue: a world brimming with charts -- How charts work -- Charts that lie by being poorly designed -- Charts that lie by displaying dubious data -- Charts that lie by displaying insufficient data -- Charts that lie by concealing or confusing uncertainty -- Charts that lie by suggesting misleading patterns -- Conclusion: Don't lie to yourself (or to others) with charts.
  note: Alberto Cairo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-209) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Computer graphics
  subject:
    topic: Charts, diagrams, etc
    topic: Design
  subject:
    topic: Information visualization
  subject:
    topic: Social media
  subject:
    topic: Charts, diagrams, etc
  subject:
    topic: Information visualization
  subject:
    topic: Visual communication
  classification: T385 .C3388 2019
  classification: 302.2/26
  classification: 001
  identifier: 9781324001560
  identifier: 1324001569
  identifier: 2019020499
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190913
    record change date: 20250308175614.3
    record identifier: in00004092387
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng