ARTICLES AT EL PAÍS

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In March, 2011 I started writing for a new blog at EL PAÍS (www.elpais.es), the main newspaper in Spain, called "Journalism With Future". In this article I will link all the posts (in Spanish):

Post 14 (October 29, 2011) Internet and the Brain: a Reading Guide for Journalists
Post 13 (October, 17, 2011) Interview with Nigel Holmes: "The future of Journalism doesn't depend on technology"
Post 12 (September, 19, 2011) Journalists and Numbers: resources on statistics for reporters, editors, and designers
Post 11 (August 29, 2011) - Interview with Stephen Few: "The goal of Journalism should be to make readers' lives easier, not to entertain them"
Post 10 (July 29, 2011) - Visual Journalism: Forms and Functions
Post 9 (July 11, 2011) - Aron Pilhofer (NYTimes): profile of a data journalist
Post 8 (June 27, 2011) - Visual Innovation: the role of journalism foundations
Post 7 (June 7, 2011) - Interview with Stephen M. Kosslyn: "Journalism and Design Schools should start teaching Cognitive Psychology" 
Post 6 (May 23, 2011) - Quantitative Humanism: an interview with Hans Rosling
Post 5 (May 9, 2011) - Citizen Kane, Osama bin Laden and news infographics
Post 4 (April 25, 2011) - Guantánamo and the most dangerous infographics
Post 3 (April 16th, 2011) - Precision Journalism and Data Visualization (Part 2)
Post 2 (April, 4th, 2011) - Precision Journalism and Data Visualization (Part 1)
Post 1 (March, 8th, 2001) - How the Origins of Visualization Help Understand the Future of Journalism

 

GORDON GEKKO AND WILLIAM PLAYFAIR

Alberto Cairo

Jan 09 |16:09

gekko1

I just finished watching the sequel to Wall Street, directed again by Oliver Stone, and I couldn't resist the urge to write a short note on its use of infographics. There are tons of charts in the movie (that's predictable, I guess), but also nice motion graphics and animated diagrams. The most interesting example is the one on the picture above.

 

Books

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My second book, El arte funcional will be released in the beginning of November 2011. More information at www.elartefuncional.com

You can buy my first book, Infografía 2.0 in Amazon.com and Amazon Spain or sending an e-mail to visualopolis@gmail.com

HAVING FUN WITH NUMBERS AT ÉPOCA

Wednesday, 24 November 2010 21:30

populacao3

Since I started being infographics director at the weekly magazine Época, the flagship of Editora Globo, biggest media group in Brazil, my team and I have produce a reasonable amout of work. I´ve written about some pieces at the official blog of the design and infographics departments, called "Faz Caber!" ("Make it fit!", which is a commonly heard sentence down here when a designer suggests a reporter he or she should edit text down a bit---). If you understand Portuguese, here you have some posts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

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DEEP SIMPLICITY: A PERSONAL GRAPHICS MANIFESTO (Part 2)

Saturday, 24 July 2010 14:31

In journalism, visual or not, the decission of what to leave out is more important than the decission of what to let in. It all comes down to editing: what do your readers need to see if they are to understand the story? This has been said and written so many times that has become a no-brainer. Therefore, I won't stop here in the second part of this personal manifesto, in which I also make a parenthesis to explain some parallelisms between information graphics, literature, and philosophy.

 

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DEEP SIMPLICITY (1)

Thursday, 01 July 2010 11:41

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Last week I was working on a science infographic for Época with the help of my colleague Gerson Mora (3D guru) when I went back to the idea I've been thinking about for the past few months, and that you can see outlined in the previous article: is it possible to create graphics that are simple and deep at the same time? If it is, they probably are the ones that news magazine readers appreciate the most.

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