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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