Uploaded January 2018 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
The use of graphs, charts, maps and infographics to explore data and communicate science to the public has become more and more popular among scientists and journalists alike. However, notes visual journalist Alberto Cairo, this rise in popularity has not been accompanied by an increasing awareness of the principles and rules that should guide the design of these visualizations.
This presentation, a plenary talk given by Cairo October 27, 2017 in San Francisco at the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, provides a tour of good and bad uses of visualizations in recent news stories, a series of practical guidelines for better design, and a demonstration of free and easy-to-use tools—all with the goal of showing you that anybody and everybody can use visualization.
The use of graphs, charts, maps and infographics to explore data and communicate science to the public has become more and more popular among scientists and journalists alike. However, notes visual journalist Alberto Cairo, this rise in popularity has not been accompanied by an increasing awareness of the principles and rules that should guide the design of these visualizations.
This presentation, a plenary talk given by Cairo October 27, 2017 in San Francisco at the 10th World Conference of Science Journalists, provides a tour of good and bad uses of visualizations in recent news stories, a series of practical guidelines for better design, and a demonstration of free and easy-to-use tools—all with the goal of showing you that anybody and everybody can use visualization.
