alberto cairo- visualizing data: 5 principles to live by
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Alberto Cairo's keynote for Hack for Change Miami, Miami's inaugural National Day of Civic Hacking event.TRANSCRIPT
VISUALIZING
FIVE PRINCIPLES TO LIVE BY
Alberto CairoUniversity of Miami
www.thefunctionalart.comTwitter: @albertocairo
DATA
MA in Journalism http://com.miami.edu/graduate-programs/graduate-journalism-mediamanagement
MFA in Interactive Media http://interactive.miami.edu/
1. Do good with data
http://guns.periscopic.com/?year=2013
www.periscopic.com
Kiev, Ukraine
http://texty.org.ua/mod/datavis/apps/elections2012/
Texty.org
2. If you want to communicate,think of your visualizations not as art, but as tools for understanding
http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EMI238256-17445,00.html
ÉPOCA magazine (Editora Globo)
3. Don’t just throw data at readers. Help them figure them out
Fischer, Eric. 2012. Language Communities of Twitter.
The New York Times (this morning!)
4. A civil hacker is a new kind of journalist
http://revistaepoca.globo.com/diagrama/noticia/2011/09/confira-media-e-o-ranking-das-escolas-na-prova-do-enem-2010.html
And now, principle number 5
HAVE FUN!Alberto Cairo
University of Miamiwww.thefunctionalart.com
Twitter: @albertocairo
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