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Alberto Cairo is a Spanish-born data visualization expert, journalist, and academic currently serving as a professor at the University of Miami. He holds the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism and works to make complex data accessible to general audiences through his charts and articles. Cairo is the author of several books on information graphics, including The Functional Art (2012), The Truthful Art (2016), and How Charts Lie (2019).
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Alberto Cairo ranks #47 of 345 in the Cartographer ranking, behind Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, ahead of George Everest.
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What is Alberto Cairo's The Functional Art about?
The 2012 book explains how charts, maps, and explanatory graphics can communicate information accurately and clearly. It combines design principles with examples from journalism and professional visualization.
Which other data-visualization books has Alberto Cairo written?
His books include The Truthful Art and How Charts Lie, alongside The Functional Art. Together they cover visual reasoning, ethical presentation, and the ways misleading charts manipulate readers.
Where does Alberto Cairo teach data visualization?
Cairo is associated with the University of Miami, where his work spans journalism, information design, and visualization. Before entering academia, he worked in news graphics in Spain and Brazil.
Why does Alberto Cairo criticize some infographics?
He argues that decoration cannot compensate for distorted scales, missing context, or an unclear statistical argument. How Charts Lie specifically teaches readers to inspect axes, encodings, and the evidence behind a visual claim.
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