Why we should spend more time thinking about how charts lie

Alberto Cairo

Journalist, Author, Professor

People lie with charts, maybe intentionally, maybe not. Learning how to interpret and understand charts will help you differentiate between truth and lies. Despite the proliferation of more and more tools, the ability of people to understand data and charts hasn’t improved much.

On this episode of The Dual Axis Podcast, I am joined by Alberto Cairo, an expert in the field of data journalism. We talk about how he got started in data journalism, his influential books, beauty and functionality in data, plus a whole lot more.