Lecture 13
Cornell University
INFO 3312/5312 - Spring 2025
March 11, 2025
Source: Alberto Cairo, The Truthful Art
Image credit: How Charts Lie
A measure of the emotional experience of awe, wonder, pleasure, or mere surprise that those objects may unleash
Image credit: Designer’s Guide to Creating Charts and Diagrams by Nigel Holmes
Image credit: Charted: Median House Prices vs. Income in the U.S.
Good visualizations clear the path to making valuable discoveries that woudl be inaccessible if the information were presented in a different way
Image credit: xkcd
Image credit: IPCC and Michael Mann/Penn State
Do good with data
Image credit: David Waldron
Image credit: mattsmithetc
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Instructions
For your assigned visualization, critique the visualization using Cairo’s qualities and identify at least three design choices that could be implemented to improve the visualization. Be detailed. Possible approaches could include:
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