Truth, beauty, and data revisited

Readings due before class on Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Required

• Chapter 12 in Alberto Cairo, The Truthful ArtAlberto Cairo, The Truthful Art: Data, Charts, and Maps for Communication (Berkeley, California: New Riders, 2016).
  
  
• Chapter 26 in Claus Wilke, Fundamentals of Data VisualizationClaus E. Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Sebastopol, California: O’Reilly Media, 2018), https://serialmentor.com/dataviz/.
  
  
• Ben Wellington, “Making data mean more through storytelling”
• Jonathan Schwabish, “Better Data Communication,” National Bureau of Economic Research
• Why People Make Bad Charts (and What to Do When it Happens)
• Treasuring All Truth

Questions to reflect on

Important! The memo for this last week is a little different. Write 150–200 words about the storytelling readings, and then write 400ish words exploring a few of these summative questions:

• What is truth?
• How do we find truth?
• Are facts truth?
• What’s the difference between content and form?
• Does beauty matter when describing truth?
• How does any of this philosophical humanities stuff relate to data visualization?