Truth or Lie? It isn’t that simple or binary when it comes to visualizing and communicating with data: there is a spectrum. In this episode, Cole talks with special guest, famed professor, author, and data journalist Alberto Cairo, about truth with a lowercase “t,” his efforts to bring graphical literacy to the public through the Visual Trumpery tour and his upcoming book, parallels between data visualization & writing, and more.
LINKS:
Website: albertocairo.com
Blog: thefunctionalart.com
Twitter: @albertocairo
Video: Visual Trumpery (Ihaka lecture)
Article: Alberto’s collaboration with Google News Lab
Google News Lab’s Data Visualization Projects
Upcoming MOOC: data visualization for storytelling & discovery
