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Summary:

How do we create new ways of looking at the world' Join award-winning data storyteller RJ Andrews as he pushes beyond the usual how-to, and takes you on an adventure into the rich art of informing. Creating Info We Trust is a craft that puts the world into forms that are strong and true. It begins with maps, diagrams, and charts-but must push further than dry defaults to be truly effective. How do we attract attention' How can we offer audiences valuable experiences worth their time' How can we help people access complexity' Dark and mysterious, but full of potential, data is the raw material from which new understanding can emerge. Become a hero of the information age as you learn how to dip into the chaos of data and emerge with new understanding that can entertain, improve, and inspire. Whether you call the craft data storytelling, data visualization, data journalism, dashboard design, or infographic creation-what matters is that you are courageously confronting the chaos of it all in order to improve how people see the world. Info We Trust is written for everyone who straddles the domains of data and people: data visualization professionals, analysts, and all who are enthusiastic for seeing the world in new ways. This book draws from the entirety of human experience, quantitative and poetic. It teaches advanced techniques, such as visual metaphor and data transformations, in order to create more human presentations of data. It also shows how we can learn from print advertising, engineering, museum curation, and mythology archetypes. This human-centered approach works with machines to design information for people. Advance your understanding beyond by learning from a broad tradition of putting things "in formation" to create new and wonderful ways of opening our eyes to the world. Info We Trust takes a thoroughly original point of attack on the art of informing. It builds on decades of best practices and adds the creative enthusiasm of a world-class data storyteller. Info We Trust is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of original compositions designed to illuminate the craft, delight the reader, and inspire a generation of data storytellers.

Author/Creator:

Andrews, R J (Digital storyteller) , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Info we trust: how to inspire the world with data [by Andrews, R.J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Info we trust [by Andrews, R.J.] (Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, 2019 — ISBN 9781119483892; LCCN 2018048217)

Subjects:

Information visualization

Digital storytelling

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 05, 2019).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

QA76.9.I52 A54 2019eb

ISBNs:

1119483913 (electronic book)
9781119483915 (electronic book)
9781119483908 (electronic bk.)
1119483905 (electronic bk.)
9781119483892 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2018056994

OCLC Numbers:

1077574693