The Art of Insight How Great Visualization Designers Think

by Cairo, Alberto

• ISBN13: 9781119797395
• ISBN10: 111979739X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-11-15
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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 fileds, 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. 

How the professional background and life experiences of every designer shape their choices of what to visualize and how to visualize it

Table of Contents

About the author

A note on typography

 

Introduction: On Magic (with Shirley Wu)

 

PART I: Pragmatists

Chapter 1: Unruly Stripes (with Ed Hawkins)

Chapter 2: A World of Conversation

 

PART 2: Eccentrics

Chapter 3: The Eternal Wanderer (with Jaime Serra)

Chapter 4: A Certain Inner Light (with Nadieh Bremer)

Chapter 5: A Mindful Artisan (with Sonja Kuijpers)

Chapter 6: Living Visualization (with Pedro Cruz)

Chapter 7: Data and Persons (with Federica Fragapane)

Chapter 8: Souls Before Numbers (with Mohamad Waked)

Coda

 

PART 3: Ambassadors

Chapter 9: Building Bridges (with Allen Hillery)

Chapter 10: The Good Fighter (with Amanda Makulec)

Chapter 11: Making Data Friendly (with Alli Torban)

Chapter 12: A Reporter Among Engineers (with Aaron Williams)

Chapter 13: The Therapy of Visualization (with Deniz Cem Önduygu)

Chapter 14: The Public Intellectual (with Attila Bátorfy)

Chapter 15: The Discerning Outsider (with Harkanwal Singh)

Second Coda

 

PART 4: Narrators

Chapter 16: A Journalism of Care (with Alyssa Fowers)

Chapter 17: No Treasure Hunts (with Lena Groeger)

Chapter 18: Smart Brevity (with Danielle Alberti, Jacque Schrag, and Will Chase)

Chapter 19: Visceral Visualizations (Gurman Bhatia)

Chapter 20: The Determined Learner (with Jane Pong)

Chapter 21: The Jack of All Trades (with Simon Ducroquet)

Chapter 22: A Journalist at War (with Anatoliy Bondarenko)

 

Epilogue: Teachers, Mentors, and Meaning

Acknowledgments

Bibliography