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Index
Title Page
Copyrigth Page
Praise for The Truthful Art
Dedication Page
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Additional Materials
Contents
Preface: It All Begins with a Spark
Introduction: The Island of Knowledge and the Shoreline of Wonder
Our First Infographic
The Island of Knowledge
Candid Versus Strategic Communication
In the Good Ol’ Days...
Your Inner Skeptic, Your Inner Journalist
What Is a Journalist, Anyway?
To Learn More
Part I: Foundations
1. What We Talk About When We Talk About Visualization
To Learn More
2. The Five Qualities of Great Visualizations
The Hockey Stick Chart
Truthful
Functional
Beautiful
Insightful
Enlightening
To Learn More
Part II: Truthful
3. The Truth Continuum
Dubious Models
The Mind, That Clumsy Modeler
Why Are We So Often Mistaken?
Mind Bug 1: Patternicity
Mind Bug 2: Storytelling
Mind Bug 3: Confirmation
Truth Is Neither Absolute, Nor Relative
The Skills of the Educated Person
To Learn More
4. Of Conjectures and Uncertainty
The Scientific Stance
From Curiosity to Conjectures
Hypothesizing
An Aside on Variables
On Studies
Doing Experiments
About Uncertainty
To Learn More
Part III: Functional
5. Basic Principles of Visualization
Visually Encoding Data
Choosing Graphic Forms
A Grain of Salt
Practical Tips About those Tricky Scales
Organizing the Display
Put Your Work to the Test
To Learn More
6. Exploring Data with Simple Charts
The Norm and the Exceptions
The Mode, the Median, and the Mean
Weighting Means
Range
Some Fun with Ranges
To Learn More
7. Visualizing Distributions
The Variance and the Standard Deviation
Standard Deviation and Standard Scores
Presenting Stories with Frequency Charts
How Standardized Scores Mislead Us
Peculiarities of the Normal Distribution
Percentiles, Quartiles, and the Box Plot
Manipulating Data
Frequency Over Time
To Learn More
8. Revealing Change
Trend, Seasonality, and Noise
Decomposing a Time Series
Visualizing Indexes
From Ratios to Logs
How Time Series Charts Mislead
Communicating Change
To Learn More
9. Seeing Relationships
From Association to Correlation
Smoothers
Matrices and Parallel Coordinate Plots
Correlation for Communication
Regression
From Correlation to Causation
Data Transformation
To Learn More
10. Mapping Data
Projection
Data on Maps
Point Data Maps
Line Maps
The Basics of Choropleth Maps
Classifying Data
Using Choropleth Maps
Other Kinds of Data Maps
To Learn More
11. Uncertainty and Significance
Back to Distributions
The Standard Error
Building Confidence Intervals
Disclosing Uncertainty
The Best Advice You’ll Ever Get: Ask
How Has Stuff Been Measured?
Dispatches from the Data Jungle
Significance, Size, and Power
To Learn More
Part IV: Practice
12. On Creativity and Innovation
The Popularizers
News Applications
Those Enchanting Europeans
Making Science Visual
Culture Data
The Artistic Fringes
Epilogue: What Lies Ahead
Index
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