Learn how expert data visualization designers reason about their craft
In The Art of Insight: How Great Visualization Designers Think, renowned visualization designer and educator Alberto Cairo, in conversation with several leaders in the field, delivers an inspiring exploration of how they make design choices. The book is a celebration of visualization, and a personal journey that dives into subjects like:
How the professional background and life experiences of every designer shape their choices of what to visualize and how to visualize it. What designers from different countries and cultures, and working in different fields, such as data art, data analytics, or data journalism, have in common, or how they differ from each other. How designers reflect on research, ethical reasoning, and also aesthetic judgments, to make decisions such as selecting the most appropriate ways to encode data, or the most appealing visual style.
Perfect for data scientists and data journalists, The Art of Insight will also inspire artists, analysts, statisticians, and any other professional who uses data visualizations.
By:
Alberto Cairo (University of Miami),
Alyssa Flowers
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 231mm,
Width: 185mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 635g
ISBN: 9781119797395
ISBN 10: 111979739X
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 23 November 2023
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
About the author xii A note on typography xiii Introduction: On Magic (with Shirley Wu) 3 Part I: Pragmatists 17 Chapter 1: Unruly Stripes (with Ed Hawkins) 19 Chapter 2: A World of Conversation 29 Part 2: Eccentrics 43 Chapter 3: The Eternal Wanderer (with Jaime Serra) 45 Chapter 4: A Certain Inner Light (with Nadieh Bremer) 59 Chapter 5: A Mindful Artisan (with Sonja Kuijpers) 71 Chapter 6: Living Visualization (with Pedro Cruz) 79 Chapter 7: Data and Persons (with Federica Fragapane) 89 Chapter 8: Souls Before Numbers (with Mohamad Waked) 101 Coda 108 Part 3: Ambassadors 113 Chapter 9: Building Bridges (with Allen Hillery) 115 Chapter 10: The Good Fighter (with Amanda Makulec) 127 Chapter 11: Making Data Friendly (with Alli Torban) 139 Chapter 12: A Reporter Among Engineers (with Aaron Williams) 149 Chapter 13: The Therapy of Visualization (with Deniz Cem Önduygu) 159 Chapter 14: The Public Intellectual (with Attila Bátorfy) 171 Chapter 15: The Discerning Outsider (with Harkanwal Singh) 183 Second Coda 192 Part 4: Narrators 197 Chapter 16: A Journalism of Care (with Alyssa Fowers) 199 Chapter 17: No Treasure Hunts (with Lena Groeger) 209 Chapter 18: Smart Brevity (with Danielle Alberti, Jacque Schrag, and Will Chase) 219 Chapter 19: Visceral Visualizations (with Gurman Bhatia) 231 Chapter 20: The Determined Learner (with Jane Pong) 241 Chapter 21: The Jack-of-All-Trades (with Simon Ducroquet) 251 Chapter 22: A Journalist at War (with Anatoliy Bondarenko) 261 Epilogue: Teachers, Mentors, and Meaning 271 Acknowledgments 280 Bibliography 282 Index 286
