How charts lie getting smarter about visual information
"A leading data visualization expert explores the negative--and positive--influences that charts have on our perception of truth. We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don't understand what we're looking at? Social media has made charts, infogra...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition |
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| See on Biblioteca de la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca: | https://koha.upsa.es/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=648979 |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue: a world brimming with charts
- How charts work
- Charts that lie by being poorly designed
- Charts that lie by displaying dubious data
- Charts that lie by displaying dubious data
- Charts that lie by concealing or confusing uncertainty
- Charts that lie by suggesting misleading patterns
- Conclusion: let's not lie to ourselves (or to others) with charts.
