

How Charts Lie
Getting Smarter about Visual Information
Author: Alberto Cairo
Narrator: Jonathan Yen
Unabridged: 5 hr 12 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Published: 10/15/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics
Synopsis
However, they can also lead us astray. Charts lie in a variety of ways—displaying incomplete or inaccurate data, suggesting misleading patterns, and concealing uncertainty—or are frequently misunderstood, such as the confusing cone of uncertainty maps shown on TV every hurricane season. To make matters worse, many of us are ill-equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians, journalists, advertisers, and even our employers present each day, enabling bad actors to easily manipulate them to promote their own agendas.
In How Charts Lie, data visualization expert Alberto Cairo teaches us to not only spot the lies in deceptive visuals, but also to take advantage of good ones to understand complex stories.