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The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization
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The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization

by Alberto Cairo
August 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
384 pages
8h 31m
English
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Contents

Introduction

Part I Foundations

1 Why Visualize: From Information to Wisdom

Rational Optimism

Low-Tech Visualization to the Rescue

Drowning in Data? Only If You Don’t Know How to Swim

From Information to Wisdom

Making Reality Visible

Visualization as a Technology

2 Forms and Functions: Visualization as a Technology

An Information Graphic on Defense

What Shape Should My Data Have?

The Origins of “Form Follows Function”

More about Functions in Nature

Functions Constrain Forms

The Bubble Plague

More Flexible Than It Seems

3 The Beauty Paradox: Art and Communication

Building a Narrative Structure

An Unexpectedly Controversial Chart

The Visualization Wheel

Abstraction-Figuration

Functionality-Decoration

Density-Lightness

Multidimensionality-Unidimensionality ...

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