EAN 9780321834737

The Functional Art is the first book to offer a broad, hands-on introduction to information graphics and visualization, the use of charts, maps, diagrams, and illustrations to communicate and understand data and phenomena. Alberto Cairo, who teaches at the University of Miami, explains that visualizations should be conceived as tools that extend our perception, letting us go beyond what the bare eye can see, and allow us to identify patterns and trends that would be invisible otherwise. The book is divided into four parts: Foundations, Cognition, Practice, and Profiles.