Truth or Lie? It isn’t that simple or binary when it comes to visualizing and communicating with data: there is a spectrum. In this episode, Cole talks with special guest, famed professor, author, and data journalist Alberto Cairo, about truth with a lowercase “t,” his efforts to bring graphical literacy to the public through the Visual Trumpery tour and his upcoming book, parallels between data visualization & writing, and more.

LINKS:

Website: albertocairo.com

Blog: thefunctionalart.com

Twitter: @albertocairo

Video: Visual Trumpery (Ihaka lecture)

Article: Alberto’s collaboration with Google News Lab

Google News Lab’s Data Visualization Projects

Upcoming MOOC: data visualization for storytelling & discovery

Tool: InZight for Data Analysis