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How Charts Lie: Introduction and Chapter 1 Response
This semester I decided to take a class titled 'Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization,' which specializes in interpreting and creating infographics to accompany educational projects or articles. The first reading for the class is titled How Charts Lie by Alberto Cairo, and the main idea of the book is explaining how political, public, and general figures either intentionally or unintentionally misread charted graphics for their personal gain. The book's introduction begins with several graphics illustrated from the 2016 Presidential Election, including this controversial image of the Electoral College votes. The key reason for bringing up the election concerned the fact that President Trump and his colleagues tend to falsify the actual results from the election, using misleading charts to convince the American people that they won by a landslide. In reality they actually lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, and only won the election via the electoral college where the states with the higher number of representatives voted in his favor. Cairo further explains throughout the remainder of the introduction into the first chapter how it's immensely important that people in such a technical world have a clear sense of graphicacy (graphic literacy), meaning that they can correctly interpret the thousands of charts found around news media daily. Another notion Cairo mentions to help facilitate chart interpretation is making sure that the artists make regional proportions correct to their statistics; this means that if a city, like Miami, FL, has a population of 2.7 million people, while a city, like Los Angeles, CA, has a population of 10 million people, the graphic depicting LA should be nearly four times the size of Miami's representative graphic.
By Maya Abrams6 years ago in Education
Learn Arabic online
As more and more people are embracing the idea of global citizenship, learning a new language became a necessity. Regardless of the reasons (leisure, work, personal development), we can all agree that acquiring a new language skill will always prove to be useful. People say that learning a new language opens new doors for you, and as a Czech proverb goes: “You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once.” Arabic is the 5th spoken language worldwide, with 422 million speakers.
By Kaleela Arabic6 years ago in Education
Top 4 topics you can Choose to Write an Environmental Essay on
Writing an environment-related essay is not a big deal since this has been included in the curriculum of even a 5-year old. Still, students face issues because there are tons of problems that nature goes through on a daily basis and selecting one from those feels like a task. So, for your environmental essay help, we have come up with the top 4 problems that you can address by writing an article on it.
By John Noels6 years ago in Education
Four Reasons You Should Hire a Maths Tutor
Maths forms a crucial basic element of education which is used throughout our lifetimes. Without even thinking about it, there are many everyday tasks we conduct which use basic mathematical principles, such as working out shopping totals, arranging objects in our home and so on. This is why it is so important to start educating children in maths from an early age.
By BeThe Surfer6 years ago in Education
Social Science Programs Pakistani Students Can Pursue in Ireland
The world is making progress with every passing day. The advancement in the fields of science, technology, and business administration has played an important role in realizing the fast-paced progress. Due to this, most of the students are attracted to these subjects when they plan their higher education.
By Jessica Loren6 years ago in Education
Institute of Structural Engineers Members
Institute of Structural Engineers members are recognised and respected in the industry for their skills and qualifications. The opportunities are not just limited to finding a job which will pay you well or being able to work with professional developers and clients. The opening of exploring skills, passion and discovering your talents is all ahead of you if you choose to study a structural engineering course. Finding the right career and progressing in the industry is not a simple challenge to face. Many professionals, students and graduates find it challenging to settle for a career that will bring job satisfaction. If you are considering building a career, you will probably be thinking about which qualification can lead you to achieve your goals.
By Emily Kennedy6 years ago in Education
The Truth About Creative Writing Programs?
Ryan Boudinot, a writer, just recently quit teaching a Master of Fine Arts course in USA. After he quit, he felt that he had the freedom to publicize a few harsh truths about creative writing programs in general, and he wrote an essay lambasting current courses. His essay in the magazine, The Stranger, caused amazing furor. Blog posts were written for and against his points. Social media was abuzz with talk of this man. The magazine was attacked and defended at the same time, with some people asking the magazine to redact the essay and others complimenting the magazine ion their good work.
By Christopher McKelvey6 years ago in Education
Adulting Course Offered at Major College
Some undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) noticed that they needed real-life skills to help prepare them to become adults. There was no course available to help them. Therefore, they created their own "Adulting" course which is different from traditional courses at the No. 1 public university in the United States and fourth-best university in the world.
By Margaret Minnicks6 years ago in Education
